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Public Provision of Private Goods, Tagging and Optimal Income Taxation with Heterogeneity in Needs
Bastani, Spencer - 2010
Previous literature has shown that public provision of private goods can be a welfare-enhancing device in second-best settings where governments pursue redistributive goals. However, three issues have so far been neglected. First, the case for supplementing an optimal nonlinear income tax with...
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Public Provision of Private Goods and Nondistortionary Marginal Tax Rates
Blomquist, Soren - 2008
The incidence and efficiency losses of taxes have usually been analysed in isolation from public expenditures. This negligence of the expenditure side may imply a serious misperception of the effects of marginal tax rates. The reason is that part of the marginal tax may in fact be payment for...
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Racial Discrimination in Local Public Services : A Field Experiment in the US
Giulietti, Corrado - 2015
Discrimination in access to public services can act as a major obstacle towards addressing racial inequality. We examine whether racial discrimination exists in access to a wide spectrum of public services in the US. We carry out an email correspondence study in which we pose simple queries to...
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Competition in Public Service Provision : The Role of Not-for-Profit Providers
Besley, Timothy J. - 2018
With public services such as health and education, it is not straightforward for consumers to assess the quality of provision. Many such services are provided by monopoly not-for-profit providers and there is concern that for-profit providers may increase profit at the expense of quality. This...
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Sustainable Social Spending in a Greying Economy with Stagnant Public Services : Baumol's Cost Disease Revisited
van der Ploeg, Rick - 2021
Baumol's cost disease states that relatively high productivity growth in manufacturing induces a steady increase in the relative price of human services. If demand for these services is inelastic or manufactured goods are necessities, the budget share of these services inexorably rises over time...
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Distributive Politics and Electoral Incentives : Evidence from Seven US State Legislatures
Aidt, Toke Skovsgaard - 2011
We study the effect of electoral incentives on the allocation of public services across legislative districts. We develop a model in which elections encourage individual legislators to cater to parochial interests and thus aggravate the common pool problem. Using unique data from seven US...
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Capacity Investment Under Demand Uncertainty - An Empirical Study of the US Cement Industry, 1994-2006
Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - 2010
Uncertainty about the level of demand is thought to influence irreversible capacity decisions. This paper examines some implications of the theory literature on this topic in an empirical study of the US cement industry between 1994 and 2006. Firms in this sector have the ability to deliver...
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Illiquidity and Under-Valuation of Firms
Gale, Douglas M. - 2012
firms' investment decisions. We characterize the conditions under which fire sales occur in equilibrium and their … consequences on firms' investment decisions. We also show that endogenous financial crises may arise in this environment, with …
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Investment and Financing Strategy of a Multinational Enterprise Under Alternative Tax Designs
Gerard, Marcel - 2012
multinational enterprise regarding the cross border distribution of its investment and the choice of its financing behavior. We …
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The Ifo Investment Database
Strobel, Thomas - 2013
In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … researchers to analyze structural investment behavior on the industry level and to identify changes in the importance of in-vestment …
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