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Betting on Exports : Trade and Endogenous Heterogeneity
Bonfiglioli, Alessandra - 2015
We study the equilibrium determinants of firm-level heterogeneity in a model in which firms can affect the variance of their productivity draws at the entry stage and explore the implications in closed and open economy. By allowing firms to choose the size of their investment in innovation...
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On the Efficient Provision of Public Goods by Means of Lotteries
Franke, Jörg - 2013
We provide a solution to the free-rider problem in the provision of a public good. To this end we define a biased indirect contribution game which provides the efficient amount of the public good in non-cooperative Nash equilibrium. No confiscatory taxes or other means of coercion are used. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013086449
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Consuming Your Way to Efficiency : Public Goods Provision Through Non-Distortionary Tax Lotteries
Giebe, Thomas - 2013
We revisit the classical result that financing a pure public good through taxation of private consumption is inefficient. To this standard setup we add a consumption contest in which consumers can win a prize. We show that an appropriately chosen contest — which we call a ‘tax lottery' —...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013082023
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Brain Drain in the Age of Mass Migration : Does Relative Inequality Explain Migrant Selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Joerg - 2021
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
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Noblesse Oblige? Determinants of Survival in a Life and Death Situation
Frey, Bruno S. - 2008
This paper explores the determinants of survival in a life-and-death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested in seeing whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012769705
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How Will Brexit Affect Tax Competition and Tax Harmonization? The Role of Discriminatory Taxation
Fuest, Clemens - 2018
This paper develops a model of tax competition with three countries, which initially form a union where countries refrain from using different tax rates in different sectors of the economy. We study the impact of one country leaving the union. We show that the introduction of discriminatory...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012927512
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Heterogeneity in Needs and Negative Marginal Tax Rates
Bastani, Spencer - 2017
This paper highlights the possibility that negative marginal tax rates arise in an intensive-margin optimal income tax model where wages are exogenous and preferences are homogeneous, but where agents differ both in skills (labor market productivity) and their needs for a work-related...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012942345
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VAT Notches
Liu, Li - 2015
taxable income to an indirect tax setting. We bring the theory to the data, using linked administrative VAT and corporation … tax records in the UK from 2004-2009. Consistently with the theory, voluntary registration is positively related to the … transactions, again consistently with the theory. We provide an estimate of the elasticity of the VAT tax base in the range of 0 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021432
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The Elasticity of Derived Demand, Factor Substitution and Product Demand : Corrections to Hicks' Formula and Marshall's Four Rules
Chirinko, Robert S. - 2006
Nearly 75 years ago, John Hicks introduced and formalized the concept of the elasticity of substitution between capital and labour and its relation to derived demand. The resulting formula has proven very useful in understanding the derived demand for productive factors, the distribution of...
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Endogeneous Matching in University-Industry Collaboration : Theory and Empirical Evidence from the UK
Banal-Estañol, Albert; Macho-Stadler, Ines; … - 2021
We develop a two-sided matching model to analyze collaboration between heterogeneous academics and firms. We predict a positive assortative matching in terms of both scientific ability and affinity for type of research, but negative assortative in terms of ability on one side and affinity in the...
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