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In this paper, we model - quantitatively – a possible realistic interaction between a tax-payer and his Government. We … there is no reason (convenience), for the tax-payer, to evade the taxes or to declare less than his real income. Moreover … distinguished tax-payer (big companies and so on). …
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Our hypothesis: during the twentieth century governments used state emergency measures to overcome its economic crisis. Such measures did better on the revenue in fiscal expenditures, thereby caused severe imbalances of public policy. It holds that in Colombia there has been no welfare state...
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increase the number of technologies transferred from a developed country through a tax on wages-and-invest scheme. We provide … conditions for such an intervention to be successful and show that there is no unique choice of tax for doing so. …
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public believe taht the tax burden is becoming unbearable. In order to argue in this, one needs to know how taxation distorts … the output and income in the Canadian economy. The key is estimating these values is the marginal tax rate, because it … the personal and corporate marginal tax rates and for the overall marginal tax rate as well. In this paper we estimate …
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This book presents theoretical and empirical investigation of the possible impact of human capital on economic growth in transition economies of Ukraine, Russia, Poland, and Hungary during the period of 1990-2007. This research defines place and role of human capital in the process of transition...
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In order to obtain plausible scenarios of economic development in Romania up to the 2015 horizon, we used a mix of forecasting models, from ones classified as “medium-term” to those covering longer forecasting periods. Based on the analysis of the economic transition period we mainly used...
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The recent empirical growth literature has proposed three underlying fundamental determinants of economic growth, namely, physical geography, economic integration, and institutional quality. This paper unpacks the final determinant into both political-economic institutions as well as the...
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We use new US county level data (3,058 observations) from 1970 to 1998 to explore the relationship between economic growth and the size of government at three levels: federal, state and local. Using 3SLS-IV estimation we find that the size of federal, state and local government all either...
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This paper explores the link between economic development and penile length between 1960 and 1985. It estimates an augmented Solow model utilizing the Mankiw-Romer-Weil 121 country dataset. The size of male organ is found to have an inverse U-shaped relationship with the level of GDP in 1985. It...
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Aghion, Howitt and Mayer Foulkes postulate that one mechanism by which financial development enhances economic growth is by increasing a nation’s ability to obtain frontier technology, which then increases the rate at which productive activity expands. This study empirically tests this...
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