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Dynamic elasticities of tax revenue : evidence from the Czech Republic

Havránek, Tomáš; Havránková, Zuzana; Schwarz, Jiří - 2015

initial response of revenue to changes in the bases is weak. In the case of wage tax it takes half a year for the elasticity …

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Paying Postage : Estimating the Elasticity of Voter Turnout

Schelker, Mark - 2017

In the aftermath of elections or ballots, the legitimacy of the result is regularly debated if voter turnout was considered to be low. Hence, discussions about legal reforms to increase turnout are common in most democracies. We analyze the impact of a very small change in voting costs on voter...

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Unobserved Tax Avoidance and the Tax Elasticity of FDI

Egger, Peter H. - 2014

This paper investigates the tax responsiveness of multinational firms' investment decisions in foreign countries, distinguishing firms that are able to avoid taxes (avoiders) from those that are not (non-avoiders). From a theoretical point of view, the tax responsiveness of firms crucially...

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Industry-Level Labour Demand Elasticities Across the Eurozone : Will There Be Any Gain after the Pain of Internal Devaluation?

Adam, Antonis - 2014

bracketed in the interval [0.05, 0.80], with the (un-weighted) mean elasticity across the various methods ranging from 0.26 to 0 …

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Estimating Labour Supply Elasticities Based on Cross-Country Micro Data : A Bridge Between Micro and Macro Estimates?

Jäntti, Markus - 2014

We utilise repeated cross sections of micro data from several countries, available from the Luxembourg Income Study, LIS, to estimate labour supply elasticities, both at the intensive and extensive margin. The benefit of the data is that it spans over four decades and includes a large number of...

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The Bunching Estimator Cannot Identify the Taxable Income Elasticity

Blomquist, Soren - 2018

can get an estimate of the taxable income elasticity from the bunching pattern around a kink point. The bunching estimator … cannot identify the taxable income elasticity when the functional form of the distribution of preference heterogeneity is … any taxable income elasticity if the distribution of heterogeneity is unrestricted. If one is willing to assume …

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Tax Competition, Elastic Labor Supply, and Growth

Hange, Ulrich - 2021

In this paper we investigate the effects of tax competition in a simple endogenous growth model with elastic labor supply. Our analysis focuses on two issues. First, we show that all taxes, i.e. on capital, labor, and consumption, are harmful for growth. Second, we derive the optimal tax policy....

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A meta-analysis of the Frisch extensive margin elasticity

Elminejad, Ali; Havránek, Tomáš; Horváth, Roman - 2020

A key parameter in structural models is the Frisch elasticity of labor supply at the extensive margin, but empirical …

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Elasticity of marginal utility of consumption : the equal-sacrifice approach applied fot the Czech Republic

Opatrny, Matej; Scasny, Milan - 2021

We provide the first estimate of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption, η, for a post-transition economy in ….42 within the study period that covers 2005-2019. Moreover, the estimate of elasticity of marginal utility of consumption …

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New estimate of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption for Europe : implications for the social discount rate

Ščasnýa, Milan; Opatrný, Matěj - 2022

We provide the first estimate of the elasticity of marginal utility of consumption, μ, for Europe and for thirty …

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