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Incorporation and Taxation : Theory and Firm-Level Evidence

Egger, Peter - 2009

This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes and corporate governance. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate...

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Opt in Versus Opt Out : A Free-Entry Analysis of Privacy Policies

Degryse, Hans - 2006

There is much debate on how the flow of information between firms should be organized, and whether existing privacy … laws should be amended. We offer a welfare comparison of the three main current policies towards consumer privacy … costly to opt in or opt out, privacy policies shape firms' ability to collect and use customer information, and affect their …

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Heterogeneous Firms and International Trade : The Role of Productivity and Financial Fragility

Assenza, Tiziana - 2016

Starting from the premise that productivity is heterogeneous across firms, Melitz (2003) explains why individual productivity is key in determining the capability of a firm to export. In this paper we build a model along Melitz's lines to show that also financial capacity, captured by the level...

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von Ehrlich, Maximilian; Seidel, Tobias - 2021

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of economic activity. If firms are more similar with respect to their total factor productivity, each company faces a lower propensity to export. This renders the home market more...

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Optimal Trend Inflation

Adam, Klaus - 2018

Sticky price models featuring heterogeneous firms and systematic firm-level productivity trends deliver radically different predictions for the optimal inflation rate than their popular homogenous-firm counterparts: (1) the optimal steady-state inflation rate generically differs from zero and...

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Should Tax Policy Favor High- or Low-Productivity Firms?

Langenmayr, Dominika - 2013

Heterogeneous firm productivity seems to provide an argument for governments to pursue ‘pick-the-winner' strategies by subsidizing highly productive firms more, or taxing them less, than their less productive counterparts. We appraise this argument by studying the optimal choice of effective...

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Trade and the Environment : The Role of Firm Heterogeneity

Kreickemeier, Udo; Richter, Philipp - 2021

This paper derives a new effect of trade liberalization on the quality of the environment. We show that in the presence of heterogeneous firms the aggregate volume of emissions is influenced not only by the long-established scale effect, but also by a reallocation effect resulting from an...

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Fiscal Federlism in a Monetary Union : The Cooperation Pitfall

Kempf, Hubert - 2018

Fiscal federalism may not be a panacea in a monetary union if it does not address the non-cooperative behaviour between fiscal policymakers. To prove this, we assess the relative merits of a fiscal federalism scheme in a monetary union and intergovernmental fiscal cooperation without such a...

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Greece's Three-Act Tragedy : A Simple Model of Grexit vs. Staying Afloat Inside the Single Currency Area

Chen, Yu-Fu - 2016

Against the backdrop of the Greek three-act tragedy, we present a theoretical framework for studying Greece's recent debt and currency crisis. The model is built on two essential blocks: first, erratic macroeconomic policymaking in Greece is described using a stochastic regime-switching model;...

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Labor Mobility and Fiscal Policy in a Currency Union

Baglioni, Angelo S. - 2015

Labor mobility is commonly taken as a property of an optimal currency area. But how does that property affect the outcome of fiscal policies? In our model, we show that perfect (costless) labour mobility is not necessarily welfare improving, since it prevents the national fiscal authorities from...

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