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Outsourcing, Public Input Provision and Policy Cooperation
Aronsson, Thomas; Koskela, Erkki - CESifo - 2009
This paper concerns public input provision as an instrument for redistribution under international outsourcing by using …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008583713
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Testing the Pareto Efficiency of Household Resource Allocations
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - CESifo - 2008
In a careful and thorough empirical study, Christopher Udry (1996) shows convincingly that, in a large sample of West African households, household resource allocations were not Pareto efficient. This paper argues that observation of the Pareto inefficiency of a household resource allocation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406400
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Coordinating Climate and Trade Policies: Pareto Efficiency and the Role of Border Tax Adjustments
Keen, Michael; Kotsogiannis, Christos - CESifo - 2011
This paper explores the role of trade instruments in globally efficient climate policies, focusing on the central issue of whether border tax adjustment (BTA) is warranted when carbon prices differ internationally. It shows that tariff policy has a role in easing cross-country distributional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147741
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The Political Competition-Economic Performance Puzzle: Evidence from the OECD Countries and the Italian Regions
Padovano, Fabio; Ricciuti, Roberto - CESifo - 2008
puzzle: data tend to support the theory at the lower levels of government, but not in panels of countries. We argue that the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765637
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Good Jobs, Bad Jobs and Redistribution
Lommerud, Kjell Erik; Sandvik, Bjørn; Staume, Odd Rune - CESifo - 2003
We analyse the question of optimal taxation in a dual economy, when the government is concerned about the distribution of labour income. Income inequality is caused by the presence of sunk capital investments, which creates a ‘good jobs’ sector due to the capture of quasi-rents by trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765638
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On the Redistributive Properties of Presumptive Taxation
Balestrino, Alessandro; Galmarini, Umberto - CESifo - 2005
Presumptive taxation, in which an income proxy is used as tax base, has been and is still used today in countries with very diverse situations - developing, transition and developed countries. Usually, this form of taxation is thought of as a revenue-raising device in presence of widespread...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765838
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Inequality and Redistribution via the Public Provision of Private Goods
Katsimi, Margarita; Moutos, Thomas - CESifo - 2004
The relationship between inequality and redistribution is usually studied under the assumption that the government …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766155
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Some Macroeconomic Consequences of Basic Income and Employment Subsidies
Moutos, Thomas; Scarth, William - CESifo - 2003
income redistribution and employment creation. In particular, the introduction of both a guaranteed annual income (basic …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766286
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Welfare Policy in the Presence of Unionised Labour and Internationally Mobile Firms
Rocha-Akis, Silvia; Schöb, Ronnie - CESifo - 2010
improves the workers’ outside options. Only if the latter become sufficiently attractive will redistribution induce some … upper limit for the generosity of the welfare state below which redistribution becomes less instead of more distortive. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008534009
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Preferences for Redistribution and Pensions. What can we Learn from Experiments?
Tausch, Franziska; Potters, Jan; Riedl, Arno - CESifo - 2010
Redistribution is an inevitable feature of collective pension schemes. Nevertheless, it is still an open question what … people’s preferences are regarding this form of redistribution. This paper reviews experimental evidence on preferences … regarding redistribution and asks what this evidence tells us about preferences for redistribution through pension schemes. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008498990