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The Euro Area Government Spending Multiplier in Demand- and Supply-Driven Recessions
di Serio, Mario; Fragetta, Matteo; Gasteiger, Emanuel; … - 2022
inflation from its trend, implying that the more demand-driven a recession, the higher the multiplier. Median multipliers range … inflation deviations from trend into account …
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The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise
Becker, Sascha O. - 2019
Did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policy-making? Combining MP-level political orientation, derived from all roll call votes in the Prussian parliament (1867-1903), with constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote...
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Taxation Under Direct Democracy
Geschwind, Stephan; Roesel, Felix - 2021
Do citizens legislate different tax policies than parliaments? We provide quasi-experimental evidence for causal effects of direct democracy. Town meetings (popular assemblies) replace local councils in small German municipalities below a specific population threshold. Difference-in-differences,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013220134
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The Cost of Public Funding with Direct and Indirect Taxation - a Revisit
Holtsmark, Bjart; Holtsmark, Katinka Kristine - 2021
The paper shows that the marginal cost of public funds (MCF) does not depend on whether public revenue is collected by taxation of consumer goods or income from factors supplied by households on the market. Atkinson and Stern (1974) concluded in their seminal paper that “[...] whether the...
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Tax Evasion and Competition
Goerke, Laszlo; Runkel, Marco - 2021
Using a Cournot oligopoly model with an endogenous number of firms and evasion of indirect taxes, this paper shows that more intense competition may have the negative side-effect of eroding tax revenues by increasing tax evasion. This will be the case if market entry costs decrease. A similar...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316822
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Welfare Effects of Indirect Tax Policies in West Africa
Babatoundé, Alain; Capéau, Bart; Houssa, Romain - 2023
In West Africa, the Value Added Tax (VAT) policy consists of a uniform tax rate, but several items consumed by rich and poor households, are exempted. We provide an optimal tax framework to reflect on the welfare effects of such a tariff structure, in the context of current debates on domestic...
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Can Payroll Tax Cuts Help Firms During Recessions?
Benzarti, Youssef; Harju, Jarkko - 2021
This paper estimates the effect of payroll tax cuts on firm-level employment and balance-sheet outcomes during economic downturns. We use two regional payroll tax cuts in Finland as well as the onset of the Great Recession to estimate the effect of the recession on firms treated by the payroll...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235100
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International Food Commodity Prices and Missing (Dis)Inflation in the Euro Area
Peersman, Gert - 2019
This paper examines the causal effects of shifts in international food commodity prices on euro area inflation dynamics …%- 30% of inflation volatility. In addition, large autonomous swings in international food prices contributed significantly … to the twin puzzle of missing disinflation and missing inflation in the era after the Great Recession. Specifically …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892245
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Real Convergence, Price Level Convergence and Inflation Differentials in Europe
Égert, Balázs - 2021
root of different inflation rates in Europe including the EU-27. Among others, we study the structural and cyclical factors … descriptive statistics. Subsequently, we set out the possible mismatches between price level convergence and inflation rates … factors on observed inflation rates first in an accounting framework and then by relying on panel estimations. Our estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316808
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Inflation Persistence in Europe : The Effects of the COVID-19 Pandemic and of the Russia-Ukraine War
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Gil-Alana, Luis A. - 2022
inflation persistence in both the euro zone and the European Union as a whole (EU27). For this purpose a fractional integration … evidence of a significant increase in inflation persistence (especially in the case of the EU27, for which in addition to jumps …
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