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endogenous retirement. Labor taxation distorts not only labor supply, but also education and retirement decisions. Actuarially … unfair pensions further exacerbate labor tax distortions on retirement. Education subsidies can nevertheless cushion the … adverse impact of taxation on skill formation. Feedbacks between education, labor supply, and retirement are important. The …
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The European Union (EU) accepted ten new member states (NMS) in 2004. These countries, mostly former socialist countries, have had to adjust their economic policies to the EU's standards. Perhaps most difficult has proven to be fiscal policy whereby NMS must comply with the Stability and Growth...
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Many important questions in the field of public finance can be viewed as problems involving public policies in open economies. This paper draws together, from that perspective, a wide range of topics in public economics, emphasizing the implications of resource mobility for our understanding of...
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Tax and Public Finance (ITAX), reflect on interesting papers that were presented at this internationally representative …
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This paper provides a comprehensive empirical assessment of the relation between the cyclicality of fiscal policy, output volatility, and economic growth, using a large cross-section of 88 countries over the period 1960 to 2004. Identification of the effects of (endogenous) cyclical fiscal...
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taxes on corporate income. We consider a number of tax systems which have been proposed, distinguishing them in two main … dimensions: the definition of what is to be taxed, and where it is to be taxed. We propose that a tax levied on economic rent …
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The paper provides a framework for designing international tax rules by outlining the various behavioral margins they … relevant margins: (1) Which foreign taxes should be credited against home country tax liabilities? (2) Should the income from … by a foreign company determine the income tax imposed by the consuming country? Should the rules be changed because of …
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taxes on corporate income. We consider a number of tax systems which have been proposed, distinguishing them in two main … dimensions: the definition of what is to be taxed, and where it is to be taxed. We propose that a tax levied on economic rent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316769
This paper incorporates a bubble term in the standard FTPL equation to explain why countries with persistently negative primary surpluses can have a positively valued currency and low inflation. It also provides an example with closed-form solutions in which idiosyncratic risk on capital returns...
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fraction of the social security payroll tax would be diverted to Personal Security Accounts. In this paper, we quantitatively … economic environment with bequests and borrowing constraints. Our setup allows us to assess whether mandatory saving or … mandatory annuitization of accumulated PSA wealth at retirement is welfare enhancing, and if so, for what type of individuals …
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