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Lifestyle Taxes in the Presence of Profit Shifting
Levaggi, Rosella - 2020
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cause about 71% of all deaths globally and a considerable increase in health care … lifestyle taxes may exist. In general, the First Best sin tax cannot be levied if Governments are also interested in corporate … harder to impose significant lifestyle taxes. We also provide some insights about the effects that the international effort …
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Coups, Regime Transition, and the Dynamics of Press Freedom
Bjørnskov, Christian - 2018
This paper explores the dynamics of press freedom around events that threaten or oust the incumbent regime of a country …. While democracies on average grant the press more freedom, our theoretical starting point is that democracies and … government. We estimate the dynamics of press freedom around both failed and successful coups and find that although press …
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Political repression and child labor : theory and empirical evidence
Maffei, Sandro; Raabe, Nikolai; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2004
more lenient and child labor thus more prevalent than in countries enjoying political freedom. We test this implication and …
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Does the Winner Take it All? Redistributive Policies and Political Extremism
Daniele, Gianmarco - 2020
We show that regional heterogeneity of underlying fundamentals (e.g. economic history, geography, social capital) can lead to extreme voting in federations. When the outcome of federal policies – such as transfer schemes, market regulation or migration laws – depends on these fundamentals,...
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Dynamic Fiscal Competition : A Political Economy Theory
Arcalean, Calin - 2019
I develop a political economy theory of dynamic fiscal competition via public spending and debt. With internationally …
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Collective Choice with Heterogeneous Time Preferences
Pakhnin, Mikhail - 2021
This paper reviews recent research on the aggregation of heterogeneous time preferences. Main results are illustrated in simple Ramsey models with two or three agents who differ in their discount factors. We employ an intertemporal view on these models and argue that preferences of a decision...
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Political Stasis or Protectionist Rut? Policy Mechanisms for Trade Reform in a Democracy
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2012
This paper analyzes the dynamics of trade policy reform under democracy. In an overlapping generations model, heterogeneous agents may acquire skills when young, thereby determining the skill composition of their cohort. Current and anticipated trade policies influence education decisions, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755373
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Read My Lips? Taxes and Elections
Fuest, Clemens; Gründler, Klaus; Potrafke, Niklas; … - 2021
We introduce a new dataset that includes quantitative harmonized indices of tax reforms based on qualitative information of about 900 Economic Surveys from the OECD and 37,000 tax-related news from the IBFD archives. The data set provides indicators on tax reforms for tax rates and tax bases,...
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Migrants' Missing Votes
Giesing, Yvonne; Schikora, Felicitas - 2021
Emigrants are less likely to participate in elections in their home country. They are also self-selected in terms of education, gender, age, and political preferences, changing the structure of the origin population. High emigration rates can therefore have a systematic influence on election...
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The Economics of Politically Connected Firms
Choi, Jay Pil; Thum, Marcel P. - 2021
Political connections between firms and autocratic regimes are not secret and often even publicly displayed in many developing economies. We argue that tying a firm's available rent to a regime's survival acts as a credible commitment forcing entrepreneurs to support the government and to exert...
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