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The Response of Firms to Eligibility Thresholds : Evidence from the Japanese Value-Added Tax
Onji, Kazuki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
It is common to defi ne benefi t eligibility for small business policies by restrictions on the fi rm size. This paper investigates the incentives for a large fi rm to masquerade as many small fi rms by separately incorporating business segments, focusing on the case of the Japanese value-added...
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Goods and Services Tax for India
Rao, R. Kavita - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2008
step towards comprehensive reforms of indirect taxes in India. It would be the final step or a step in the right direction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363957
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Prospects of Wheat and Sugar Trade between India and Pakistan : A Simple Welfare Analysis
Burki, Abid A.; Khan, Mushtaq A.; Hussain, S.M. Turab - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2006
This paper asks how opening up of wheat and sugar trade between two nuclear neighbours, India and Pakistan, would … between the two countries under three alternative trade regimes : a) under an FTA between India and Pakistan, b) under SAFTA …, and c) under a grant of mostfavoured nation (MFN) to India by Pakistan. We conduct simple welfare analysis for wheat, on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363486
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A tale of pork prices : evasion and attenuation of a Japanese tariff
Onji, Kazuki - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper empirically examines the effectiveness of a safeguard tariff in the Japanese market for imported pork parts. The goals are, first, to consider a refinement to the traditional market-based method for evasion detection, and, second, to apply the method in a setting where evasion is...
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A Fresh Assessment of the Underground Economy and Tax Evasion in Pakistan : Causes, Consequences, and Linkages with the Formal Economy
Kemal, M. Ali - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2007
Rise in the underground economy creates problems for the policy-makers to formulate economic policies, especially the monetary and fiscal policies. It is found that if there was no tax evasion, budgets balance might have been zero and positive for some years and we would not have needed to...
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Lifestyle Choices and Societal Behavior Changes as Local Climate Strategy
Mohanty, Brahmanand; Scherfler, Martin; Devatha, Vikram - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing rapid economic growth. Along with rising incomes, the lifestyles of the large middle class are moving quickly towards a buy-and-discard consumer model that involves carbon-intensive products and services. These increase dependency on the Earth’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277996
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Lifestyle Choices and Societal Behavior Changes as Local Climate Strategy
Mohanty, Brahmanand; Scherfler, Martin; Devatha, Vikram - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2012
The Asia-Pacific region is witnessing rapid economic growth. Along with rising incomes, the lifestyles of the large middle class are moving quickly towards a buy-and-discard consumer model that involves carbon-intensive products and services. These increase dependency on the Earth’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278240
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Reforming Indirect Taxes in India : Role of Environmental Taxes
Srivastava, D K; Rao, C Bhujanga - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
regime of taxation of goods and services in India environmental tax reform should also be incorporated to make the tax regime …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363778
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Delegation and Emission Tax in a Differentiated Oligopoly
Pal, Rupayan - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper examines how product differentiation as well as strategic managerial delegation affects optimal emission tax rate, environmental damage and social welfare, under alternative modes of product market competition. It shows that, under pure profit maximization, the (positive) optimal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365041
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Does partial privatization improve the environment?
Pal, Rupayan; Saha, Bibhas - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2010
This paper shows that, in case of differentiated products mixed duopoly, environmental damage increases (decreases) with the level of privatization, if the level of privatization is less (more) than certain level. It also shows that partial privatization is optimal from the social welfare point...
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