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This paper empirically studies the effects of fiscal policy shocks on private consumption. Further, it tries to determine if the level of government bond yield and the unemployment rate affect that relationship. We use yearly data between 1970 and 2000 for thirty-eight countries, of which half...
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yields additional insights. Firms more subject to market forces exhibit greater price sensitivity. The price elasticity is …
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. When only skilled workers are mobile, there is a sub-optimal shift from taxes to fees and the number of students is too low …
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municipal governments within a given city. In this chapter, we document patterns of city-level taxation across countries, and we … taxation needs to take account of three particular features: interdependence among tax-setting authorities (horizontally and … and empirical literatures, focusing in particular on models of asymmetric tax competition, of taxation and income sorting …
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We construct a general equilibrium trade model of a two-class small open host or source country. When consumption tax revenue finances the provision of a public good, marginal migration reduces social welfare in the source country and raises it in the host. When consumption tax revenue is...
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This paper analyzes how mobility of post-graduate skilled workers and students across different countries affects the quality level of higher education and the way education is financed. We start by examining a closed economy. In the presence of imperfect credit markets the education level with...
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This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes … and corporate governance. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation … (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate transparency, access to external capital and limited liability. We estimate …
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produces many traded and non-traded goods, uses income taxes and distributes the tax receipts equally to all individuals. The …
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The paper examines how country tax differences affect a multinational enterprise’s choice to centralize or de-centralize its decision structure. Within a simple model that emphasizes the multiple conflicting roles of transfer prices in MNEs - here, as a strategic pre-commitment device and a...
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We consider taxation by a Leviathan government and by a utilitarian government in the presence of heterogeneous …
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