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In the struggle between the forces of free trade and the restrictive influence of insularism the latter recently seems to have the upper hand. This is illustrated by the referendum of June 23, 2016 where the United Kingdom (UK) voted to leave the European Union (EU). In this paper we evaluate...
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The national income and product accounts double-count investment, which enters once when it occurs and again in present … gross investment. In the steady state, revised product and income correspond to consumption. Outside of the steady state …, the measure deviates from consumption because full expensing relates to the long-run flow of gross investment, not the …
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This paper studies empirically the effect of education policies on human capital and per capita income. The results suggest for European and OECD countries that higher attendance at pre-primary education, greater autonomy of schools and universities, a lower student-to-teacher ratio, higher age...
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An increasing body of empirical evidence is documenting trends toward rising concentration, profits, and markups in many industries around the world since the 1980s. Two major criticisms of these studies is that concentration and market shares are poorly measured at the national industry level...
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and only if the investment elasticity of the tax base is lower than the investment elasticity of the apportionment factor …
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frameworks to study investment pathways consistent with a net zero industry transformation. We find that a mix of measures … investment efforts needed for a green transition of the analyzed sectors1 amount to EUR2.7trn until 2050 of which 8% or EUR210bn … reduction for the European industrial sector is estimated at 265 MtCO2 (-92%), which yields an average abatement investment of …
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There is a lack of clear evidence of the ways in which dividend taxation affects dividend distributions and investment …
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The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. Using several measures of stated and revealed preferences spanning over half a century, we...
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The quasi-exogenous division of the French regions Alsace and Lorraine after the Franco-Prussian War allows us to provide evidence about group identity formation within historically homogeneous regions. We use several measures of stated and revealed preferences at the municipal-level in a...
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This paper introduces a new theoretical framework of international unions qua coalitions of countries adopting a common policy and common supranational institutions. We introduce a general class of non-cooperative spatial bargaining games of coalition formation among three countries in order to...
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