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Making World Heritage Truly Global: The Culture Certificate Scheme

Frey, Bruno S.; Pamini, Paolo - CESifo - 2009

Culture has attributes of a global public good that needs to be preserved for mankind as a whole. World Culture … Certificates are proposed to efficiently preserve World Heritage. The community of nations has to agree on the Global Heritage List … and how much each nation is to contribute to that purpose. Each World Heritage site conserved is acknowledged through the …

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World Heritage List: Does it Make Sense?

Frey, Bruno S.; Steiner, Lasse - CESifo - 2010

The UNESCO World Heritage List contains the 900 most treasured Sites of humanity’s culture and landscapes. The World …

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Optimal Taxation and Constrained Inefficiency in an Infinite-Horizon Economy with Incomplete Markets

Gottardi, Piero; Kajii, Atsushi; Nakajima, Tomoyuki - CESifo - 2011

We study the dynamic Ramsey problem of finding optimal public debt and linear taxes on capital and labor income within a tractable infinite horizon model with incomplete markets. With zero public expenditure and debt, it is optimal to tax the risky labor income and subsidize capital, while a...

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Happy Voters

Liberini, Federica; Redoano, Michela; Proto, Eugenio - CESifo - 2014

Motivated by recent interest and initiatives taken by several governments and international organizations to come up with indicators of well-being to inform policy makers, we test if subjective well-being measures (SWB) can be employed to study voting behaviour. Controlling for financial and...

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The Law and Economics of Enhancing Cartel Enforcement: Using Information from Non-Cartel Investigations to Prosecute Cartels

Ghosal, Vivek - CESifo - 2011

I present the following proposal: information revealed during non-cartel investigations by competition law enforcement authorities, such as evaluation of M&As or investigation of monopolization (dominance) conduct, should be directly used to investigate and prosecute cartels. Currently, in...

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Daddy Months

Meier, Volker; Rainer, Helmut - CESifo - 2014

We consider a bargaining model in which husband and wife decide on the allocation of time and disposable income. Since her bargaining power would go down otherwise more strongly, the wife agrees to have a child only if the husband also leaves the labor market for a while. The daddy months...

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Tradable Immigration Quotas

Moraga, Jesus Fernandez-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - CESifo - 2013

individuals and governments who care about world poverty. This implies that the existing international migration regime is …

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Tradable Refugee-Admission Quotas and EU Asylum Policy

Moraga, Jesus Fernandez-Huertas; Rapoport, Hillel - CESifo - 2014

The current EU Asylum policy is widely seen as ineffective and unfair. We propose an EU-wide market for tradable quotas on both refugees and asylum-seekers coupled with a matching mechanism linking countries’ and migrants’ preferences. We show that the proposed system can go a long way...

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Household Bargaining and the Design of Couples' Income Taxation

Cremer, Helmuth; Lozachmeur, Jean-Mari; Maldonado, Dario; … - CESifo - 2015

This paper studies the design of couples’ income taxation. Consumption and labor supply decisions within the couple are made by maximizing a weighted sum of the spouses’ utilities; bargaining weights are given but specific to each couple. The information structure and labor supply decisions...

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Reducing the Excess Burden of Subsidizing the Stork: Joint Taxation, Individual Taxation, and Family Tax Splitting

Meier, Volker; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2008

Analyzing a homogenous household setting with endogenous fertility and endogenous labor supply, we demonstrate that moving from joint taxation to individual taxation and adapting child benefits so as to keep fertility constant entails a Pareto improvement. The change is associated with an...

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