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Oxford, U.C. Berkeley, the M.I.T. and Chalmers School of Technology. It argues that key to successful research … the ‘Third Way’ of university research commercialization, which focuses on systemic change, rather than on single … business and academia are reflected through the introduction of ‘social responsible university research commercialization’, as …
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Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to discuss the current state of higher education, high-impact research and … research is presented. Secondly, progress of high-impact research in India and China for citable documents, number of citations … documents, number of citations, international collaboration, collaborative research projects, publications and editorship, and …
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Student achievement has been identified as important contributor to economic growth. This paper investigates the relationship between redistributive government activities and investment in human capital measured by student performance in international comparative tests in Mathematics and Science...
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alternative measures of student performance from the World Bank. Our estimates indicate that increased government size by 10 …
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We analyze the incidence and welfare effects of unit sales tax increases in experimental monopoly and Bertrand markets. We find, in line with economic theory, that firms with no market power are able to shift a high share of the tax burden to consumers, independent of whether buyers are...
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Income disparities and the intra-family redistribution implied by a marriage may induce a high-income earner to abstain from marrying a low-income earner even though they would be a perfect match emotionally. Redistributive income taxation eases this problem, and the design of marriage matching...
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use discriminatory taxation. If countries can provide fiscal incentives for attracting new firms, this stabilizes existing …
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In exchange economies with indivisible objects, the substitutability of agents' preferences is essential for the guaranteed existence of Walrasian equilibrium. In this paper, we analyze the ranges of variation for agents' preferences that will guarantee the existence of equilibrium when some...
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The two papers give a full analysis of Latin American taxaton since 1990 up to day. One paper deals with counry cases. Those examinated regard Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costarica, Mexico, Paraguay and Uruguay. For each country tax trends are examinated, starting by 1990 or before. Then...
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The cultural diversity of the European Union reflects somehow on the tax system used by each country. To European level, the way of approaching the tax system has known two approaching plans: European continental approach, according to which the tax drawings are made up of taxations and...
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