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Discrimination in dynamic procurement design with learning-by-doing
Barbosa, Klenio; Boyer, Pierre C. - 2012
paper studies the long-run impact of procurement discrimination on market structure and future competition in industries …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288456
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Tariff Bindings and the Dynamic Formation of Preferential Trade Agreements
Lake, James - 2019
We show that multilateral tariff binding liberalization substantially impacts the nature and extent of Preferential Trade Agreement (PTA) formation. First, it shapes the nature of forces constraining expansion of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). The constraining force is a free riding incentive of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866805
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Trade Tariff, Wage Gap and Public Spending
Giuranno, Michele - 2019
This paper studies the interplay between the wage gap and government spending in a small open economy facing a shock in trade policy. We consider a specific factor model with an export sector, which uses skilled labour, and an import-competing sector, which uses unskilled labour. We find the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861427
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Pareto-Efficient Tax Deductions
Koehne, Sebastian - 2019
expenditures. An immediate implication is a recipe for designing Pareto-improving tax reforms. We apply our theory to housekeeping …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866074
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Pareto-Improving Reforms of Tax Deductions
Koehne, Sebastian - 2019
. We apply our theory and simulate a Pareto-improving reform that introduces deductions for non-care household services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861395
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Optimal Income Taxation with Labor Supply Responses at Two Margins : When is an Earned Income Tax Credit Optimal?
Hansen, Emanuel - 2021
This paper studies optimal non-linear income taxation in a model with labor supply responses at the intensive (hours, effort) and extensive (participation) margins. It shows that an Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) with negative marginal taxes and negative participation taxes at the bottom is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013250261
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Pareto-Improving Reforms of Tax Deductions
Koehne, Sebastian - 2020
. We apply our theory and simulate a Pareto-improving reform that introduces deductions for non-care household services …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828804
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Efficiency-Inducing Tax Credits for Charitable Donations When Taxpayers Have Heterogeneous Behavioral Norms
Van Long, Ngo - 2021
We consider an economy in which some taxpayers behave in a Kantian way in their donation behavior while others are Nash players. A Kantian taxpayer holds the norm that any suggested deviation from a proposed equilibrium profile would be adopted by him only if when all members of their community...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013313450
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Socially-tolerable discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - 2008
History is replete with overt discrimination on the basis of race, gender, age, citizenship, ethnicity, marital status … discrimination are not equally tolerable. For example, discrimination based on immutable or prohibitively unalterable characteristics … driven by either racial (gender or ethnic) discrimination or generational discrimination (i.e., young versus old). When the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264357
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Political Culture and Discrimination in Contests
Epstein, Gil S.; Mealem, Yosef; Nitzan, Shmuel - 2010
objective of this study is to analyze the effect of political culture and of valuation asymmetry on discrimination between the … discrimination is an endogenous variable that characterizes the mechanism allocating the prize. We consider situations under which … effect of changes in the political culture and in valuation asymmetry on the designer's preferred discrimination between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274763