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Using Spatial Distribution of Outlets to Estimate Gambling Incidence
Dahan, Momi - 2017
The paper proposes a simple and innovative methodology for measuring the incidence of gambling expenditure in countries …
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VAT and Agriculture: Lessons from Europe
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017
Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be ‘washed out’ through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...
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Who Bears the Economic Costs of Environmental Regulations?
Fullerton, Don; Muehlegger, Erich - 2017
Public economics has a well-developed literature on tax incidence – the ultimate burdens from tax policy. This … incidence of non-tax regulations, energy efficiency standards, or other environmental mandates. Recent papers find that mandates …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744902
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The Incidence of VAT Evasion
Asatryan, Zareh; Gomtsyan, David - 2020
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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On the incidence of a financial transactions tax in a model with fire sales
Bierbrauer, Felix - 2012
This paper studies the impact of a financial transactions tax on a financial market where financial institutions trade with each other. Assets are marked to the market and financial institutions with negative equity are forced out of business. There are two main results: First, if all banks have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287194
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The Evolution of Offshore Renminbi Trading: 2016 to 2019
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Grimm, Louisa; Westermann, Frank - 2020
We study the evolution of offshore renminbi trading between 2016 and 2019. The diffusion behaviour of offshore renminbi trading during this period is different from the one between 2013 and 2016. The geographical diffusion process displayed in the 2016-2019 period, in addition to the previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269455
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The Renminbi Central Parity: An Empirical Investigation
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Hui, Cho-Hoi; Tsang, Andrew - 2016
On August 11 2015, China revamped its procedure of setting the official central parity of the renminbi (RMB) against the US dollar. Our empirical investigation shows that the intertemporal dynamics of China’s central parity are not the same before and after this policy change. They are more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522463
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The Evolution of Offshore Renminbi Trading : 2016 to 2019
Cheung, Yin-Wong - 2020
We study the evolution of offshore renminbi trading between 2016 and 2019. The diffusion behaviour of offshore renminbi trading during this period is different from the one between 2013 and 2016. The geographical diffusion process displayed in the 2016-2019 period, in addition to the previously...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830102
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Asymmetric Connectedness on the U.S. Stock Market: Bad and Good Volatility Spillover
Baruník, Jozef; Kocenda, Evžen; Vácha, Lukáš - 2015
This paper suggests how to quantify asymmetries in volatility spillovers that emerge due to bad and good volatility … stocks at the disaggregate level. Moreover, the spillovers of bad and good volatility are transmitted at different magnitudes …
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Volatility transmission in emerging European foreign exchange markets
Bubák, Vít; Kocenda, Evézen; Zikes, Filip - 2010
This paper studies the dynamics of volatility transmission between Central European currencies and euro/dollar foreign … exchange using model-free estimates of daily exchange rate volatility based on intraday data. We formulate a flexible yet … parsimonious parametric model in which the daily realized volatility of a given exchange rate depends both on its own lags as well …
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