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Some Principles of Taxation for Latin America: Lessons from the USA and European Experiences

McGee, Robert W. - EconWPA - 1998

The countries of the world have public finance systems that can generally be broken down into three categories. Advanced western democracies (and Japan) have long-established, often complex systems. Emerging economies such as those in Eastern Europe and China are in the process of moving from...

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Reputation and competence in publicly funded scientific research

Arora, Ashish; Gambardella, Alfonso - EconWPA - 1996

This paper studies an unusually comprehensive data-set of the universe of research groups that applied to an Italian 1989 93 research programme in biotechnology and bio-instrumentation. We develop a model to test whether past publications influence the expected grants obtained by the units in...

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Non-Profits and Price-Fixing: The Case of the Ivy League

Netz, Janet S. - EconWPA - 1998

A number of private colleges and universities have chosen not to compete for students by offering merit-based financial aid. In addition, until 1990 many of these schools jointly calculated a student's financial need. I theoretically and empirically analyze the effects of different financial aid...

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Resources Used to Produce Individual Development Accounts in the First Two Years of the Experimental Program of the American Dream Demonstration at the Community Action Project of...

Schreiner, Mark - EconWPA - 2001

This paper describes an attempt to measure resources used to produce Individual Development Accounts in a program run by the Community Action Project of Tulsa County. The experimental design of the program-- participants were selected from applicants at random--aims to inform the overall...

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Saving, IDA Programs, and Effects of IDAs: A Survey of Participants

Moore, Amanda; Beverly, Sondra; Schreiner, Mark; … - EconWPA - 2001

Individual Development Accounts (IDAs) are special savings accounts designed to help people build assets to reach life goals and to achieve long-term security. Account-holders receive matching funds as they save for purposes such as buying a first home, attending job training, going to college,...

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Replicating Microfinance in the United States: Opportunities and Challenges

Schreiner, Mark; Morduch, Jonathan - EconWPA - 2001

In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance in the United States? This paper attempts to...

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Workplace location and travel effects from teleworking

Lim, H.N. - EconWPA - 2002

Travel time losses in the Netherlands are likely to get worse in the years ahead if capacity is not added to cope with the demand. This particularly creates problems for business travel, which is characterized by a high “value of time”. In the Netherlands, policy makers have a long-standing...

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The Impact of Mandates and Tax Limits on Voluntary Contributions to Local Public Services: An Application to Fire Protection Services

Bice, Douglas C.; Hoyt, William H. - EconWPA - 1997

quality of public services. Here, we focus on another impact of mandates on public services, the use of volunteers and fund-raising … increase both the use of volunteers and fund-raising and mandates increase the use of volunteers. These predictions are then … of fund-raising. The results of our empirical work generally support our theoretical predictions. The existence a tax …

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Partial Privatization and Firm Performance: Evidence from India

Gupta, Nandini - EconWPA - 2001

Privatization in India is mostly limited to the diffuse sale of minority stakes in firms. Since control rights have not been transferred to private owners it is widely contended that the process has had little impact on firm behavior. We find however that even the sale of minority stakes has a...

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The Accident Externality from Driving

Edlin, Aaron S.; Karaca-Mandic, Pinar - EconWPA - 2004

We estimate auto accident externalities (more specifically insurance externalities) using panel data on state-average insurance premiums and loss costs. Externalities appear to be substantial in traffic dense states: in California, for example, we find that a typical additional driver increases...

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