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Illegal Trade in the Iranian Economy: Evidence from a Structural Model

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - CESifo - 2008

index of smuggling in Iran from 1970 to 2002. The Multiple Indicators - Multiple Causes (MIMIC) econometric modelling is … incentives for illegal trade. More trade openness accompanies more illegal trade for the case of Iran. On average, the relative … size of smuggling is about 13% of the total trade in Iran. The absolute amount of smuggling per year is about $3 billion. …

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Political Institutions and Government Spending Behavior in Iran

Dizaji, Sajjad Faraji; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - CESifo - 2014

development of government spending in major sections shapes the political institutions in Iran. This question has become … especially important due to recent international sanctions, aiming to change the political behavior of Iran. We use the impulse … provision spending in Iran. The results imply that a shock in positive changes of democratic quality of institutions leads to …

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Direct Distribution of Rents and the Resource Curse in Iran: A Micro-econometric Analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - CESifo - 2014

subsequent taxation in Iran. We use rich micro survey data covering more than 36,000 Iranian households in 2009. Our micro …

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Productivity as if Space Mattered: An Application to Factor Markets Across China

Cheng, Wenya; Morrow, John; Tacharoen, Kitjawat - CESifo - 2013

Although firms may face radically different production conditions, this dimension of firm heterogeneity is often overlooked. We model input demand across local factor markets, explicitly considering search costs which explain why firms care about both the price and availability of inputs. The...

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Multiple Pollutants, Uncovered Sectors, and Suboptimal Environmental Policies

Fullerton, Don; Karney, Dan - CESifo - 2014

In our analytical general equilibrium model where two polluting inputs can be substitutes or complements in production, we study the effects of a tax on one pollutant in two cases: one where both pollutants face taxes and the second where the other pollutant is subject to a permit policy. In...

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Households, Markets and Public Choice

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2014

We develop a model that combines competitive exchange of private commodities across endogenously formed groups with public good provision and global collective decisions. There is a tension between local and global collective decisions. In particular, we show that group formation and collective...

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International Capital Markets, Oil Producers and the Green Paradox

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

A rapidly rising carbon tax leads to faster extraction of fossil fuels and accelerates global warming. We analyze how general equilibrium effects operating through the international capital market affect this Green Paradox. In a two-region, two-period world with identical homothetic preferences...

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What is the Best Environmental Policy? Taxes, Permits and Rules under Economic and Environmental Uncertainty

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Economides, George; … - CESifo - 2010

We study the importance of uncertainty and public finance to the welfare ranking of three environmental policy instruments: pollution taxes, pollution permits and Kyoto-like numerical rules for emissions. The setup is the basic stochastic neoclassical growth model augmented with the assumptions...

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Trade and Imperfect Competition in General Equilibrium

Koska, Onur A.; Stähler, Frank - CESifo - 2011

This paper employs a general equilibrium model of imperfect competition and trade in which capital is used to establish firms and labor is used for production. We show that two different types of equilibria may exist, one with factor price equalization and one with different factor prices. When...

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Elections, Fiscal Policy and Growth: Revisiting the Mechanism

Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis; Price, Simon - CESifo - 2002

This short paper reconsiders the popular result that the lower the probability of getting reelected, the stronger the incumbent politicians’ incentive to follow short-sighted, inefficient policies. The set-up is a general equilibrium model of endogenous growth and optimal fiscal policy, in...

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