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Is Western European Agriculture Resilient to High Temperatures?

Massetti, Emanuele - 2019

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Droughts and Farms' Financial Performance in New Zealand : A Micro Farm-Level Study

Pourzand, Farnaz - 2019

We quantify the impacts of droughts in New Zealand on the profitability of dairy, and sheep and beef farms. Using a comprehensive administrative database of all businesses in New Zealand, we investigate the impact of droughts on farm revenue, profits, return on capital, business equity, debt to...

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Measuring the Immeasurable : The Evolution of the Size of Informal Economy in the Agricultural Sector in the EU-15 Up to 2019

Schneider, Friedrich; Morkunas, Mangirdas; Quendler, Erika - 2021

This study is the first scientific attempt to calculate the size of the informal economy in agriculture. The Multiple … higher levels of informal economy in agriculture compared to the overall economy. The impact of subsidies and farm … organizations on the development of the informal economy are two important factors for these higher values in agriculture. The …

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Impacts of Droughts and Floods on Agricultural Productivity in New Zealand as Measured from Space

Blanc, Élodie; Noy, Ilan - 2022

This study estimates the impact of excess precipitation (or the absence of rainfall) on productivity of agricultural land parcels in New Zealand. This type of post-disaster damage assessments aims to allow for quantification of disaster damage when on-the-ground assessment of damage is too...

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Taxes, Profit Shifting, and the Real Activities of Mnes : Evidence from Corporate Tax Notches

Hansen, Jaqueline; Merlo, Valeria; Wamser, Georg - 2023

We exploit exogenous variation in tax notches created by controlled foreign corporation (CFC) rules to better understand the profit-shifting behavior of multinational enterprises (MNEs) and its consequences for real activity. Using new data on CFC rules and information on direct parent-affiliate...

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Pension Systems (Un)Sustainability and Fiscal Constraints : A Comparative Analysis

Heer, Burkhard; Polito, Vito; Wickens, Michael - 2023

Using an overlapping generations model, two new indicators of public pension system sustainability are proposed: the pension space, which measures the capacity to pay for pension expenditures out of labour taxation, and the pension space exhaustion probability reflecting demographic...

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The Three Meaningful Votes : Voting on Brexit in the British House of Commons

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2019

Why do politicians rebel and vote against the party line when high stakes bills come to the floor of the legislature? We leverage the three so-called Meaningful Votes that took place in the British House of Commons between January and March 2019 on the Withdrawal Agreement that the Conservative...

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More Giving or More Givers? The Effects of Tax Incentives on Charitable Donations in the UK

Almunia, Miguel - 2019

This paper estimates the effects of tax incentives on charitable contributions in the UK, using the universe of self-assessment income tax returns between 2005 and 2013. We exploit variation from a large reform in 2010 to estimate intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving....

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The Rise of the 'No Party' in England

Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2019

We document a remarkable increase over the past two and a half decades in the fraction of people in England feeling close to no party – the rise of the “no party” – which, today, is close to constituting an absolute majority. We develop a new method to distinguish between age, period,...

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The Brexit Conundrum Worsens the UK's Relationship with the European Union

Ryan, John T - 2019

This paper examines the shortcomings in the UK government's Brexit negotiation strategy which reflected Prime Minister Theresa May's weak political leadership. The Prime Minister focused on securing the short-term political survival of her government amidst turbulent and fractious domestic...

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