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We exploit the precise timing of natural disasters to provide empirical evidence on the connection between electoral accountability and politicians’ support for special interests. We show that, in the immediate aftermath of a disaster, the evening news substantially reduce their coverage of...
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-and-file? We investigate this question using legislative speech from the Norwegian Parliament and recently developed techniques for …
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conclusion that the one-month oil supply elasticity is close to zero, which implies that oil demand shocks are the dominant …
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financial statement income. This paper develops a conceptual framework – based on the literature on the elasticity of taxable … income – for the welfare analysis of such proposals, and discusses the available evidence on the tax elasticity of financial …
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lowering moral ignorance. In this paper, we study the (in)elasticity of moral ignorance, with respect to monetary incentives …
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This paper develops a quantitative spatial general equilibrium model for the German economy to address two issues. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we address the role of housing markets for quantitative...
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be attributed to wrong macroeconomic predictions and approximately one-third to false assumptions on the elasticity. Our …
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We estimate the corporate elasticity of taxable income. Our analysis draws on panel variation in the decentralized …% results in an increase in aggregate corporate income by about 3.5% over a time span of 4 years. The elasticity is larger in … remote, non-central locations. Firm entry, exit, and mobility only account for a small share of the overall elasticity …
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and only if the investment elasticity of the tax base is lower than the investment elasticity of the apportionment factor …
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Far-right and far-left parties by definition occupy the fringes of politics, with policy proposals outside the mainstream. This paper asks how public attitudes about such policies respond once an extreme party increases their political representation at the local level. We study attitudes...
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