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The Incidence of VAT Evasion
Asatryan, Zareh; Gomtsyan, David - 2021
Who benefits from the evasion of value added taxes (VAT)? Using a reform that enforced VAT on previously non-compliant large retailers in Armenia, we estimate a one-third passthrough of the tax burden on prices. This suggests that pre-enforcement evasion rents were broadly shared with consumers...
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Uncovered Power : External Agenda Setting, Sophisticated Voting, and Transnational Lobbying
Battilana, Silvia Console - 2021
Where does the balance of power lie in a policy - making institution with an external agenda setter, legislators, and lobbies? In a multiple round majority rule game with sophisticated actors, we show that the agenda setter obtains its most preferred policy outcome even if all lobbies and...
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Copyright Protection in the Digital Single Market
Stähler, Frank; Stähler, Leander - 2022
This paper scrutinizes the effects of the European Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market on platform competition in media markets. Platforms that are Online Content-Sharing Service Providers must have a license agreement with collective management organizations that control the...
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Remittances, banking status and the usage of insurance schemes
Crayen, Dorothee; Hainz, Christa; Ströh de Martínez, … - 2010
can be used to self-insure, substituting for both formal and informal insurance. We investigate this question using a … remittances, which supports the idea that remittances act as (self-) insurance. We also show that purchasing formal funeral cover … is influenced by other risk management strategies and that determinants of informal insurance differ from those of formal …
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Insurance for Catastrophes - Indemnity vs. Parametric Insurance with Imperfect Information
Feess, Eberhard; Jordan, Cathrin; Noy, Ilan - 2022
Insurance for natural hazards - earthquakes, hurricanes, or pandemics - is rarely comprehensively adopted without …. Efforts to close this insurance gap include the introduction of parametric (index) insurance products for various catastrophic … risks. We compare parametric to indemnity insurance in a simple model where the insurance company has superior information …
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Insuring Peace : Index-Based Livestock Insurance, Droughts, and Conflict
Gehring, Kai; Schaudt, Paul - 2023
, and climate change is predicted to intensify this problem. The Index-Based Livestock Insurance (IBLI) scheme piloted in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356486
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Uncovered power : external agenda setting, sophisticated voting, and transnational lobbying
Console Battilana, Silvia - 2007
Where does the balance of power lie in a policy-making institution with an external agenda setter, legislators, and lobbies? In a multiple round majority rule game with sophisticated actors, we show that the agenda setter obtains its most preferred policy outcome even if all lobbies and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264242
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International trade integration: a disaggregated approach
Chen, Natalie; Novy, Dennis - 2009
This paper investigates the sources and size of trade barriers at the industry level. We derive a micro-founded measure of industry-specific bilateral trade integration that has an in-built control for time-varying multilateral resistance. This trade integration measure is consistent with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264596
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A fair price for energy? Ownership versus market opening in the EU15
Fiorio, Carlo V.; Florio, Massimo - 2010
In the past two decades privatisation and liberalisation of network industries providing services of general economic interest (SGEI), have been particularly significant in the European Union. Wide variations around a common policy trend can, however, be observed across countries and sectors. We...
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Reforming European universities: scope for an evidence-based process
Veugelers, Reinhilde; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2008
Universities are key players in the successful transition to a knowledge-based economy and society. However, this crucial sector of society needs restructuring if Europe is not to lose out in the global competition in education, research and innovation. To allow a more evidence based process of...
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