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Government Spending and Tax Revenue Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Do Natural Disasters Matter?
Afonso, António; Jalles, João Tovar; Venâncio, Ana - 2023
empirically link the public sector efficiency scores, to tax revenue and spending decentralization. First, we compute government … estimate the effect of decentralization on public sector efficiency and how extreme natural disasters mediate this relationship …. The sample covers 36 OECD countries between 2006 and 2019. Our results show that tax revenue decentralization decreases …
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International intellectual property rights : effects on growth, welfare and income inequality
Chu, Angus C.; Peng, Shin Kun - In: Journal of macroeconomics 33 (2011) 2, pp. 276-287
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Inequality Undermines Democracy and Growth
Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2019
Income equality and trust seem to go along with several other ingredients of social capital as determinants of economic growth across the globe. In a large sample of countries, equality in the distribution of income as measured by the World Bank and by The Standardized World Income Inequality...
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Income inequality measures and economic growth channels
Blotevogel, Robert; Imamoglu, Eslem; Moriyama, Kenji; … - In: Journal of macroeconomics 72 (2022), pp. 1-24
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How Economic Growth Impinges on Income Inequalities?
Alves, José; Coelho, Jose Carlos; Roxo, Alexandre - 2022
Performing a panel data analysis for OECD countries, during the period between 1990 and 2019, this article investigates the relationship between economic growth and income inequalities. The main objective is to understand how the GDP and GNI per capita affect income inequality and how they...
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Economic depression in the world
Boucher Breuer, Janice; McDermott, John Harvey - In: Journal of macroeconomics 38 (2013) 2, pp. 227-242
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The effect of macroeconomic variables on economic growth rates : a cross-country study
Garrison, Charles B. - In: Journal of macroeconomics 17 (1995) 2, pp. 303-317
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The Social Cost of Carbon and Inequality : When Local Redistribution Shapes Global Carbon Prices
Kornek, Ulrike - 2019
The social cost of carbon is the central economic measure for aggregate climate change damages and functions as a metric for optimal carbon prices. Previous literature shows that inequality significantly influences the level of the social cost of carbon, but mostly neglects a major source of...
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Trade Openness and Income Inequality : New Empirical Evidence
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021
We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
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Your Place in the World - Relative Income and Global Inequality
Fehr, Dietmar; Mollerstrom, Johanna; Perez-Truglia, Ricardo - 2021
There is abundant evidence on individual preferences for policies that reduce national inequality, but only little evidence on preferences for policies addressing global inequality. To investigate the latter, we conduct a two-year, face-to-face survey experiment on a representative sample of...
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