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Gender Based Taxation and the Division of Family Chores

Alesina, Alberto - 2007

Gender-Based Taxation (GBT) satisfies Ramsey's rule of optimality because it taxes at a lower rate the more elastic labor supply of women. This holds when different elasticities between men and women are taken as exogenous. We study GBT in a model in which labor supply elasticities emerge...

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Evaluation of Four Tax Reforms in the United States : Labor Supply and Welfare Effects for Single Mothers

Eissa, Nada - 2004

A large literature evaluating the welfare effects of taxation has examined the role of the labor supply elasticity, and … effect on each margin is created by a different tax wedge. Finally, ignoring the composition of the labor supply elasticity … the total labor supply elasticity is as important as its size …

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A Variational Approach to the Analysis of Tax Systems

Golosov, Mikhail - 2014

We develop a general method to study the effects of non-linear taxation in dynamic settings using variational arguments. We first derive general theoretical formulas that characterize the welfare effects of local tax reforms and, in particular, the optimal tax system, potentially restricted...

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Do safeguard tariffs and antidumping duties open or close technology gaps?

Crowley, Meredith A. (contributor) - 2002 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Trade Restrictiveness and Deadweight Losses from U.S. Tariffs, 1859-1961

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2007

This paper calculates the Anderson-Neary (2005) trade restrictiveness index (TRI) for the United States using nearly a century of data. The results show that the standard import-weighted average tariff understates the TRI, defined as the uniform tariff that yields the same welfare loss as the...

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Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders : Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?

Krishna, Kala - 2007

This paper considers the effects of trade policy--tariffs and quotas--when importing is done by competitive traders who … conventional ranking of tariffs and quotas is turned on its head: quotas are not as bad for welfare as previously believed, while … tariffs may restrict trade by more than originally intended. Furthermore, the allocation of property rights (quota licenses …

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Escaping Import Competition and Downstream Tariffs

Fieler, Ana Cecília - 2018

We propose and provide evidence for a new source of gains from trade: Firms invest in product differentiation to escape import competition. In the data and in the model, these investments are associated with increases in measured productivity, introduction of new goods, and shifts to...

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Tariff Reductions, Entry, and Welfare : Theory and Evidence for the Last Two Decades

Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2015

In a standard multi-sector, heterogeneous-firm trade model the effect of tariffs on entry, especially in the presence … are a consequence of the reductions in MFN tariffs (the Uruguay Round); and that for some countries, particularly some … would gain from the elimination of tariffs have a strong rank correlation with those that gain from a negative optimal …

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Trade Adjustment Dynamics and the Welfare Gains from Trade

Alessandria, George - 2014

tariffs arise from substituting away from firm creation and towards export capacity. This is in stark contrast to the static … their ability to grow into successful exporters. We calibrate the model and estimate the welfare gains from reducing tariffs …

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Revenue Tariff Reform

Anderson, James E. - 2013

) uniform tariff cuts that preserve domestic relative prices among tariff-ridden goods …

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