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Tax Incentives and Business Investment: Evidence from German Bonus Depreciation

Eichfelder, Sebastian; Schneider, Kerstin - CESifo - 2014

business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with … were cut back in 1997. Moreover, there was a significant reduction in building investment in the year after the expiration …

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The Making of Cultural Policy: A European Perspective

Ploeg, Frederick Van der - CESifo - 2005

No good comparable data on sizes of cultural sectors of the countries of Europe exist. Still, local and national governments of Europe spend substantial resources on culture and cultural sectors contribute significantly to employment and national income. After briefly describing special features...

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Why do Scandinavians Work?

Andersen, Torben - CESifo - 2010

Recent debates have suggested that taxation is very detrimental to labour force participation and employment. However, some countries - notably the Scandinavian - stand out as contradictions to this view since they have managed to sustain high labour force participation rate despite high tax...

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Firm Size and Diversification: Asymmetric Multiproduct Firms under Cournot Competition

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2003

A positive relationship between firm size and product diversification is a long-standing stylized fact. However, so far there is no appropriate theoretical model to explain the underlying forces of this observation. This paper analyzes an oligopoly model with asymmetric multiproduct frms, which...

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Managerial Job Assignment and Imperfect Competition in Asymmetric Equilibrium

Grossmann, Volker - CESifo - 2003

This paper develops a model with multiple market locations in which the quality of intangible assets of firms, provided by management, determines the firms. performance. Despite an ex ante symmetry of potential entrants, the equilibrium assignment of heterogeneous managerial skills to firms...

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Labour Supply Effects of an Early Retirement Programme

Brinch, Christian; Hernæs, Erik; Strøm, Steinar - CESifo - 2001

In 1988, an early retirement program (AFP) was introduced in Norway for the 66-years-old. Since then, AFP has gradually been extended and by now it covers workers aged 62-66. In this paper we employ a multinominal logit model to study the transition between states in the labour market. The model...

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Retirement in Non-Cooperative and Cooperative Families

Hernæs, Erik; Jia, Zhiyang; Strøm, Steinar - CESifo - 2001

Models that allow for non-cooperative as well as cooperative behavior of families are estimated on data from Norway in 1993 and 1994. The husband is eligible for early retirement while the wife is not. The models aim at explaining labor supply behavior of married couples the first twelve months...

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Prices vs. Quantities with Endogenous Cost Structure

Storrøsten, Halvor Briseid - CESifo - 2014

significant impact. Finally, either regulatory instrument may induce the highest technology investment levels. …

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Abusive Transfer Pricing and Economic Activity

Nielsen, Søren Bo; Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm - CESifo - 2014

We demonstrate that the choice of the transfer price and its effect on intra-firm trade and investment depends on the …

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International Capital Markets, Oil Producers and the Green Paradox

Meijden, Gerard C. van der; Ploeg, Frederick Van der; … - CESifo - 2014

-period world with identical homothetic preferences and without investment, the global interest rate falls and the Green Paradox … weakens. With investment or a relatively more impatient oil-importing region, the Green Paradox may be strengthened because …

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