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This paper studies the effect of top tax rates on inventors' mobility since 1977. We put special emphasis on "superstar … Patent Offices to track inventors' locations over time and combine it with international effective top tax rate data. We …% inventors are significantly affected by top tax rates when deciding where to locate. The elasticity of the number of domestic …
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in market economies supplemented with simple tax systems. The market structure in these economies is identical to that in … constraint and a debt limit. The tax system describes additional transfers that the agents must make to the government. It … current labour income. It implies optimal tax functions that are not additively separable in these variables. The marginal …
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This paper examines the effects of tax cuts in a multi-country world where both labour supply and capital formation are … endogenous and taxes are distortionary. We highlight four channels through which tax cuts affect interest rates and the economy … in general: (i) an increase in the supply of government debt; (ii) increased tax revenues, through increased economic …
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-from-trade benefits created by it. Immigration could be more beneficial to the native-born population when labour markets are better …
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benefits and tax credits among 'comparable' households. We implement this approach by estimating a discrete choice model of … representation of the French tax-benefit system. Our results suggest that financial incentives play a notable role in determining …
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respond to labour tax rates and government supplied non-employment benefits. We compare aggregate and individual outcomes in … terms of how macroeconomic aggregates respond to some types of government supplied non-employment benefits, but remarkably …, not to labor tax changes. …
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This Paper is an empirical study of fiscal policy in countries with extreme monetary regimes. We study members of multilateral currency unions, dollarized countries that officially use the money of another country, and countries using currency boards. We find that belonging to an international...
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This paper analyses the causes and consequences of offshore financial centers (OFCs). Since OFCs are likely to be tax … and simulate a model of a home country monopoly bank facing a representative competitive OFC which offers tax advantages …
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Recent empirical tests of dynamic optimal seigniorage models focus on their `smoothing' and long-run implications. The models also imply that the optimal policies are forward looking; that is seigniorage revenues depend on expected future government expenditures. We report causality tests of...
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A central tenet of the Maastricht Treaty is that a successful European Monetary Union requires sustainable public finances of its member states. Yet there is no clear definition of sustainability. The economist’s common use of the term builds on the concept of an intertemporal budget...
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