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Knowledge Sources of Innovation in a Small, Open Economy: The Case of Singapore

Wong, Poh Kam; Ho, Yuen Ping - EconWPA - 2005

knowledge for innovation output in Singapore, a small, highly open economy that has traditionally been significantly dependent … Singaporean firms depends disproportionately on technological knowledge produced by MNCs with operational presence in Singapore … universities constitute an insignificant, albeit rapidly growing, source for innovation in Singapore. …

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Labor Productivity and Inter-Sectoral Reallocation of Labor in Singapore (1965-2002)

Akkemik, K. Ali - EconWPA - 2005

decomposition of aggregate productivity growth in Singapore over the period 1965-2002. The static shift-share analysis is utilized …

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On Singaporean Dollar-U.S. Dollar and Purchasing Power Parity

Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi; Lim, … - EconWPA - 2003

This study re-examines the validity of relationship between Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and the relative … Smooth Transition Autoregressive (ESTAR)- type non-linear mean-reverting adjustment process of the nominal Singapore dollar … Singapore Dollar-US Dollar exchange rate and consumer price index ratio, this study shows that the relationship is in fact non …

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On Singaporean Dollar and Purchasing Power Parity

Liew, Venus Khim-Sen; Baharumshah, Ahmad Zubaidi; Lim, … - EconWPA - 2004

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Tax system and reforms in Europe: Spain

Tondani, Davide - EconWPA - 2005

This paper aims at discussing the main features of Spain’s tax system, its recent reforms and those underway. The current state of the main taxes, their future reforms are studied starting from 1975, when Spain shifted to democracy. Direct taxes, indirect taxes and social security...

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On Household Wealth Trends in Sweden over the 1990's

Klevmarken, N. Anders - EconWPA - 2003

Influenced by major tax reform in the early 1990s and by the exceptional boom in the stock market at the end of that decade, overall wealth in Swedish households increased. So did wealth inequality. The large baby- boom cohorts of the 1940s have been successful in accumulating wealth and they...

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The Tax Base in Transition: The Case of Bulgaria, World Bank Policy Research Working Paper Series No. 1267 (March 1994), The World Bank.

Bogetic, Zeljko; Hillman, Arye - EconWPA - 2005

Meeting government revenue needs without inhibiting private sector development is a key challenge of tax policy during the transition from the socialist system. The paper explores issues in the design of tax bases and tax structures in the transition and argues that transition economies would...

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A Two-Dimensional Criterion for Tax Policy Evaluation. A Primer from the Reform of Personal Income Taxation in Russia.

Nekipelov, Denis - EconWPA - 2004

The comparison of different tax schedules is a problem of high dimensionality. In the current paper it is proved that under very general assumptions a utilitarian welfare function and an inequality index compose a sufficient statistic for the after-tax welfare distribution, reducing...

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On Household Wealth Trends in Sweden over the 1990s

Klevmarken, N. Anders - EconWPA - 2004

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On Selective Indirect Tax Reform in Developing Countries

Emran, M. Shahe; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - EconWPA - 2002

The current consensus on indirect tax reform in developing countries favors a reduction in trade taxes with an increase in VAT to raise revenue. The theoretical results on selective reform that underlie this consensus are, however, derived from partial models that ignore the existence of an...

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