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How Should Commodities Be Taxed? A Counterargument to the Recommendation in the Mirrlees Review
Bastani, Spencer - 2013
The Mirrlees Review recommends that commodity taxation should in general be uniform, but with some goods consumed in conjunction with labour supply (such as child care) left untaxed. This paper examines the validity of this claim in an optimal income tax framework. Contrary to the recommendation...
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Why is China Investing in Africa? Evidence from the Firm Level
Chen, Wenjie - 2016
China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … investment is small, though growing rapidly. China's attraction to resource-rich countries is no different from Western …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012987345
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Adverse Effects of Ultra-Loose Monetary Policies on Investment, Growth and Income Distribution
Hoffmann, Andreas - 2016
The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the … substitute real investment by financial investment. When interest rates are expected to fall in the long term, the marginal and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012996802
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Fair and Efficient Taxation Under Partial Control : Theory and Evidence
Ooghe, Erwin - 2011
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their misfortune, while they allow them to enjoy the fruits of their effort. This paper introduces fairness in a tax-benefit scheme that is based on several characteristics in order to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013122256
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Culture and Tax Structures
König, Tobias - 2013
We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...
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Old George Orwell Got It Backward : Some Thoughts on Behavioral Tax Economics
Slemrod, Joel B. - 2009
It is entirely appropriate that the study of public finance take seriously "behavioral" inconsistencies with traditional models of individual and collective decision-making. This raises the question of whether the state should play a role in protecting individuals from themselves, and whether...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013156227
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Tax Avoidance, Endogenous Social Norms, and the Comparison Income Effect
Balestrino, Alessandro - 2006
We present a model of income tax avoidance with heterogeneous agents, assuming the presence of a comparison income effect and of a psychic cost (disutility) of tax dodging. We analyse the policy preferences of the agents, and identify a median-voter political equilibrium. Paralleling previous...
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Politically Feasible Reforms of Non-Linear Tax Systems
Bierbrauer, Felix J. - 2020
We present a conceptual framework for the analysis of politically feasible tax reforms. First, we prove a median voter theorem for monotonic reforms of non-linear tax systems. This yields a characterization of reforms that are preferred by a majority of individuals over the status quo and hence...
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Effective Corporate Taxation, Tax Incidence and Tax Reforms : Evidence from OECD Countries
Barrios, Salvador - 2014
The present study provides estimates of the Effective Marginal Tax Rates (EMTRs) for a sample of 17 OECD countries and 11 manufacturing sectors in a single framework encompassing capital, labour and energy taxes. Our cross-country/cross-sector approach allows us comparing the incentives provided...
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When a Price is Enough : Implementation in Optimal Tax Design
Renes, Sander - 2014
This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations. Hammond's (1979) “principle of taxation” proves that...
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