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Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act : A Synthetic Control Study
Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021
whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel … estimate Austria’s price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel … prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been …
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Designing Instrument Packages for the Low-Carbon Transition : An Evaluation Framework with an Application to Austria
van der Werf, Edwin; Vollebergh, Herman R.J; Vogel, Johanna - 2021
commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217087
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Dynamic Causal Forests, with an Application to Payroll Tax Incidence in Norway
Gavrilova, Evelina; Langørgen, Audun; Zoutman, Floris - 2023
This paper develops a machine-learning method that allows researchers to estimate heterogeneous treatment effects with panel data in a setting with many covariates. Our method, which we name the dynamic causal forest (DCF) method, extends the causal-forest method of Wager and Athey (2018) by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014346998
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Interest income tax evasion, the EU savings directive, and capital market effects
Klautke, Tina; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2008
The Savings Directive has been celebrated as a major political break-through in coordinating taxation in Europe. Against this background, the present paper evaluates the real-world effects of this directive. The directive has left a loophole by providing grandfathering (exemption from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277186
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Do Multinationals Transplant Their Business Model?
Marin, Dalia - 2019
What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860290
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A Destination-Based Allowance for Corporate Equity
Hebous, Shafik - 2019
Following renewed academic and policy interest in the destination-based principle for taxing profits—particularly through a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT)—this paper studies other forms of efficient destination-based taxes. Specifically, it analyzes the Destination-Based Allowance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892223
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Wages and the Value of Nonemployment
Jäger, Simon - 2019
-experimental variation in nonemployment values arises from four large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892243
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Has the Russian Invasion of Ukraine Reinforced Anti-Globalization Sentiment in Austria?
Gutmann, Jerg; Pitlik, Hans; Fronaschütz, Andrea - 2022
globalization. We study two waves of representative population surveys conducted in Austria, one right before the Russian invasion …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014077190
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Mismatch Unemployment in Austria : The Role of Regional Labour Markets for Skills
Böheim, René; Christl, Michael - 2021
During the last decade, the Austrian labour market experienced a substantial outward shift of the Beveridge curve. Using detailed administrative data on vacancies and registered unemployed by region and skill level, we test which factors caused this shift. We find that the Beveridge curve...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013227604
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Unearned Income and Labor Supply : Evidence from Survivor Pensions in Austria
Böheim, René; Topf, Michael - 2021
in unearned income, we exploit a policy reform that lowered survivor pensions in Austria. Men widowed after the survivor …
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