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Bovi, Maurizio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper presents some stylised facts about the book-tax gap, i.e. the difference between book and taxable income, of Italian corporations. This divergence is a reflection of the usage of any tax shields and any applicable credits and rebates which, in turn, implies that the concept of taxable...

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An Estimate of the Elasticity of Intertemporal Substitution in a Production Economy

Harashima, Taiji - EconWPA - 2005

The elasticity of intertemporal substitution (EIS) at the macro level has been estimated mostly based on endowment economy models and these estimates are very sensitive to the choice of interest rates that are used for estimation. Estimates based on production economy models do not need...

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Does Centralised Wage Setting Lead into Higher Taxation

Kilponen, Juha; Sinko, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies implications of centralised wage setting for the level of taxation and public expenditure in an analytical model with unionised labour markets. We extend the previous studies by allowing for both demand and supply effects of labour. Also, in addition to the standard social...

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Wage and public expenditure setting in a monetary union

Acocella, Nicola; Bartolomeo, Giovanni Di - EconWPA - 2001

European countries have progressively integrated from the point of view of trade and investment and have a common currency now. However, labour market and fiscal institutions have largely retained their national status. The aim of this paper is to examine: a) the possibility for trade unions of...

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Does Centralised Wage Setting Lead into Higher Taxation?

Sinko, Pekka - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies implications of centralised wage setting for the level of taxation and public expenditures in an analytical model with unionised labour markets. We extend the previous studies by allowing both demand and supply effects of labour. Also, in addition to the standard social...

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Aid, Public Expenditure and Dutch Disease

Adam, Christopher; Bevan, David - EconWPA - 2004

Contemporary policy debates on the macroeconomics of aid often concentrate on short-run Dutch disease effects, ignoring the possible supply side impact of aid—financed public expenditure. We develop a simple model of aid and public expenditure in which public infrastructure capital generates...

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CORRUPTION AND BRIBERY IN THE NIGERIAN ECONOMY: AN EMPIRICAL INVESTIGATION

NWAOBI, DR. GODWIN CHUKWUDUM - EconWPA - 2004

illustrate the interrelationships between natural resources, corruption and economic growth in Nigeria. We proposed anti-corruption …

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The Firms Speak: What the World Business Environment Survey Tells Us about Constraints on Private Sector Development

Batra, Geeta; Kaufmann, Daniel; Stone, Andrew H. W. - EconWPA - 2004

corruption on the one hand, and growth and investment on the other, and it highlights the costs to economies where the state is …

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“One Man, One Dollar”? Examining the equalization argument in support of campaign contribution limits

Vanberg, Christoph - EconWPA - 2005

grounds. The first is that they prevent corruption, the second is that they democratize the financing of campaigns by …

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PREFERENCES,DEVELOPMENT AND THE CORRUPTION TRAP

Correani, Luca - EconWPA - 2004

traditional anticorruption measures such as the increase in corruption costs or the organization of public education campaigns … would not permanently reduce corruption levels if poverty remains diffused. Using an overlapping generation model based on a … mechanism of cultural transmission, we study the evolution both of social attidudes towards bureaucratic corruption and the …

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