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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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Agricultural Exports, Tariffs and Growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014

products with low growth potential on the long-run economic growth. The model shows that, when elasticity of demand for the …. Therefore, the current trend of reduction in tariffs on agricultural exports not only generates a positive welfare effect in the …

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Pakistan's electrical energy crises, a way forward towards 50% of sustain clean and green electricity generation

Tao, Jinsong; Waqas, Muhammad; Ali, Muhammad; Umair, … - In: Energy strategy reviews 40 (2022), pp. 1-17

has been convulsed by electricity shortages that at times have reached over 10-15% of total demand; Therefore, we … forecasting techniques. In order to determine electricity-influencing factors, the assumptions were analyzed using multiple … Pakistan's power system will likely demand 192.64 TWh, 346.31 TWh, 600.08 TWh, and 2299.59 TWh of electricity by 2025, 2030 …

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Modeling electricity consumption patterns during the COVID-19 pandemic across six socioeconomic sectors in the State of Qatar

Abulibdeh, Ammar - In: Energy strategy reviews 38 (2021), pp. 1-17

aims to investigate the impact of the pandemic on the spatial patterns of electricity consumption in six socioeconomic … spatiotemporal patterns of electricity consumption have been assessed using various Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and spatial … statistical modeling prior and during the pandemic. The results demonstrate variations in electricity consumption within and …

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Calculating Great Britain's half-hourly electrical demand from publicly available data

Wilson, Grant; Sharma, Shivangi; Day, Joseph; Godfrey, Noah - In: Energy strategy reviews 38 (2021), pp. 1-20

Here we present a method to combine half-hourly publicly available electrical generation and interconnector operational data for Great Britain to create a timeseries that approximates its electrical demand. We term the calculated electrical demand ‘ESPENI’ that is an acronym for Elexon Sum...

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