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Tax expenditures are generally defined as those government expenditures carried out through tax legislation …, regulations, and practices that reduce or defer taxes for some taxpayers. There is a general concern that the tax expenditures … systems. Many countries in Latin American and a few in the Caribbean already estimate their tax expenditures; but in many …
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This paper empirically studies the effects of fiscal policy shocks on private consumption. Further, it tries to determine if the level of government bond yield and the unemployment rate affect that relationship. We use yearly data between 1970 and 2000 for thirty-eight countries, of which half...
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"A paper recently published in the journal Tobacco Control purports to show that the implementation of a smoking prohibition in Delaware had no statistically significant effect on the revenues of three gaming facilities in that state. After undertaking a thorough analysis of the data, I find...
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The purpose of this article is to analyze how competitive forces may influence the way media firms like TV channels raise revenue. A media firm can either be financed by advertising revenue, by direct payment from the viewers (or the readers, if we consider newspapers), or by both. We show that...
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Auctions are the allocation-mechanisms of choice whenever goods and information in markets are scarce. Therefore, understanding how information affects welfare and revenues in these markets is of fundamental interest. We introduce new statistical concepts, k- and k-m-dispersion, for...
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A tax buyout is a contract between tax authorities and a tax payer which reduces the marginal income tax rate in exchange for a lump-sum payment. While previous contributions have focussed on labour supply, we consider the interaction with tax evasion and show that a buyout can increase expected...
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in the Netherlands, and contains information on teenage time use, income, expenditures, and subjective measures of well … social interactions. For some types of behavior (e.g. truancy, smoking, pocket money, alcohol expenditures) endogenous social …
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insecurity measures with objective measures of food expenditures and objective and subjective measures of food needs. The study … with food expenditures and negatively associated with needs. The study goes on to examine reports of food hardships at low … very levels of food expenditures, where we conjecture that most people should experience food problems. When expenditures …
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