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Fiscal Churning and Political Efficiency

Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2001

This paper proposes churned transfers as a measure of political inefficiency. A transfer is churned when at least the same level of voter satisfaction could have been achieved by lowering the voter's tax burden by the amount of the transfer. Previous measures of political efficiency---Pommerehne...

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Do labour taxes (and their composition) affect wages in the short and in the long run?

Arpaia, Alfonso; Carone, Giuseppe - EconWPA - 2004

Measures aimed at reducing the tax burden on labour have been advocated to alleviate the EU unemployment problem. Most of the analyses document a relationship between the unemployment rate and the tax burden on labour. Hence, it is not possible to discern whether the effect on unemployment...

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TAX INCIDENCE IN A MODEL WITH EFFICIENCY WAGES AND UNEMPLOYMENT

Rapanos, Vassilis T - EconWPA - 2004

The purpose of the present paper is to examine the effects of taxation on income distribution in a model with efficiency wages and involuntary unemployment. Central to the efficiency-wage theory is the hypothesis that firms may set wages above market-clearing levels, whenever the productivity of...

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The macroeconomic impacts of a foot-and-mouth disease outbreak: an information paper for Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet

Black, Melleny; Gereben, Áron; Woolford, Ian - EconWPA - 2004

This memorandum provides a scenario analysis of the likely macroeconomic impacts of a limited foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) outbreak in New Zealand. It is worth stressing at the outset that it is not a forecast, nor a ‘central’ scenario, but an exercise to gauge broad magnitudes and to trace...

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STOCHASTIC VOLATILITY: LIKELIHOOD INFERENCE AND COMPARISON WITH ARCH MODELS

Kim, Sangjoon; Shephard, Neil; Chib, Siddhartha - EconWPA - 1996

. This approach is compared with several alternative methods using real data. The paper also develops simulation- based …

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Inflation Targeting: to Forecast or to Simulate

Skorepa, Michal; Kotlan, Viktor - EconWPA - 2003

two basic ways of assessing future inflation: forecast and simulation. A forecast is the most likely picture of the future …. In a forecast, all agents are assumed to behave in the most likely way. A simulation, on the other hand, is the most … differentiating between a forecast and a simulation, we discuss the pros and cons of using the two ways of assessing future inflation …

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A "One-line" Simulator for Maxima or Minima on Drifting Brownian Paths

Abrahamson, Allen - EconWPA - 2002

A simple transform of a standard uniform variate is given for simulation of the maximum attained by a Wiener process …

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Innovazione tecnologica e offerta di skills:una simulazione

Scarlato, M.; Cenci, M. - EconWPA - 2004

In this paper a dynamic stochastic model is used to simulate the matching process between skills demand and supply in a segmented labor market of a typical developing area where labor market frictions are pervasive. We address the issue of the emergence of a “bad” outcome i.e. equilibrium...

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Evolutionary models’ comparative analysis. Methodology proposition based on selected neo-schumpeterian models of industrial dynamics

Kwasnicki, Witold - EconWPA - 2002

A methodology of comparative analysis of evolutionary models is proposed. The main aim of this proposition is to identify to what extend different models can be called ‘evolutionary ones’. Each model is analysed by searching for answers to following questions:  Is the model dynamical one?...

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The Promises and Perils of Agent-Based Computational Economics

Richiardi, Matteo - EconWPA - 2004

critiques against the use of simulation, which point to the following problematic areas: (i) interpretation of the simulation … dynamics, (ii) estimation of the simulation model, and (iii) generalisation of the results. I show that there exist solutions …

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