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This paper examines demand systems where the demand for a good depends only on its own price, consumer income, and a single aggregator synthesizing information on all other prices. This generalizes directly-separable preferences where the Lagrange multiplier provides such an aggregator. As...
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. The numerical analysis literature offers many reliable methods, and should be used because alternatives derived from … difference methods from numerical analysis produces far superior approximations than do simple discrete-time systems … first identify the underlying continuous-time model of DICE. Second, we present mathematical and computational methods for …
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This paper examines demand systems where the demand for a good depends on other prices only through a common price aggregator (a scalar function of all prices). We refer to this property as ``generalized separability'' and provide the functional forms of demand that this property implies when...
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This paper discusses the issues surrounding the proposals to conform financial accounting income and taxable income …. The two incomes diverged in the late 1990s with financial accounting income becoming increasingly greater than taxable … of earnings management for financial accounting and/or the tax sheltering of corporate income. Our paper outlines the …
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We elaborate on the business cycle accounting method proposed by Chari, Kehoe, and McGrattan (2007), clear up some …
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This paper investigates the impact of market structure on the joint determination of exchange rate pass- through and currency of invoicing in international trade. A novel feature of the study is the focus on market share of firms on both sides of the market--that is, exporting firms and...
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teacher effects are likely biased. After accounting for these biases, high-school algebra and English teachers have much …
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This paper comprehensively reviews Accounting for Income Taxes (AFIT). The first half provides background and a primer …
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across time and across the world. Growth accounting is the principal quantitative tool for understanding this phenomenon, and … for assessing the prospects for further increases in living standards. This paper sets out the general growth accounting … model, with its methods and assumptions, and traces its evolution from a simple index-number technique that decomposes …
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This paper presents a simple agency model to explain why third-party income reporting by employers dramatically improves income tax enforcement. Modern firms have a large number of employees and carry out complex production tasks, which requires the use of accurate business records. Because such...
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