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that anticipate the actual tax base incorrectly. I analyze the effects of stochastic taxation on investment behavior in a … the effects of both tax base and tax rate uncertainty, the investment's tax payment is modelled as a stochastic process …. Increased tax uncertainty has an ambiguous impact on investment timing. The view that tax uncertainty depresses real investment …
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similar investment subsidies were implemented in the same country, two years apart: once during a period of economic stability … offer an important policy opportunity to encourage investment …
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The role of product market reforms in achieving the objective of higher employment and growth has recently received much attention amongst academics. The aim of this paper is to analyse some of the channels through which cross-market effects come about and to assess their policy relevance. The...
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shows that macroeconomic risk acts as an important deterrent to investments. …The paper studies the interaction between cyclical uncertainty and investment in a stochastic real option framework … of the link between cyclical uncertainty and investment is quantified using simulations of the model. The chief …
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We consider positive and normative aspects of subsidizing work arrangements where subsidies are paid in time of low demand and reduced working hours so as to stabilize workers’ income. In a matching framework such an arrangement increases labor demand. Tightening eligibility to short-time work...
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The Atkinson-Stiglitz theorem on uniform consumption taxation breaks down if prices are endogenous. This paper investigates the implications for optimal food subsidies in China. To do so, we build a general equilibrium model where low-skilled workers have a comparative advantage in the...
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marginal fiscal recovery rate, i.e. the ratio of the change in total net fiscal revenues and the change in total subsidy costs … of the net fiscal revenue gain and the subsidy cost of a degree in tertiary education. Second, we use the sufficient …
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domestic and foreign production of other goods. The optimal tax-subsidy scheme is based on an intuitive principle: Impose a …. Producers of renewables-based electricity should receive a subsidy to internalize their contribution to the reduction of global …
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A major result in the study of two-sided platforms is the strategic interdependence between the two sides of the same platform, leading to the implication that a platform can maximize its total profits by subsidizing one of its sides. We show that this result largely depends on assuming that at...
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We estimate the effects of a large program of public investment subsidies granted to Italian firms in disadvantaged … in rank order until the funds were fully allocated. We estimate that subsidies increased investment by marginal firms … subsidy. Younger firms did better than older firms. Firms ranking high on objective criteria and firms preferred by local …
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