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Corporate Tax Competition and the Decline of Public Investment

Gomes, Pedro - 2008

The government's choices of the corporate tax rate and public investment are interdependent. In particular, they both respond positively to the other. Therefore, international tax competition not only drives corporate tax rates to lower levels but might also affect negatively the stock of public...

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International Energy R&D Spillovers and the Economics of Greenhouse Gas Atmospheric Stabilization

Bosetti, Valentina - 2014

It is widely recognized that technological change has the potential to reduce GHG emissions without compromising economic growth; hence, any better understanding of the process of technological innovation is likely to increase our knowledge of mitigation possibilities and costs. This paper...

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Eliciting Individual Preferences for Pension Reform

Abid Fourati, Yosr; O'Donoghue, Cathal - 2021

Pension systems have recently been under scrutiny because of the expected population ageing threatening its sustainability. This paper’s contribution to the debate is from a political economic perspective as it uses data from a Choice Experiment to investigate individual preferences for an...

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Longevity and Aggregate Savings

Sheshinski, Eytan - 2021

For the last fifty years, countries in Asia and elsewhere witnessed a surge in aggregate savings per capita. Some empirical studies attribute this trend to the increases in life longevity of the populations of these countries. It has been argued that the rise in savings is short-run, eventually...

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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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Social Identity and Voter Turnout

Ben-Bassat, Avi; Dahan, Momi - 2013

This paper uses the unique social structure of Arab communities to examine the effect of social identity on voter turnout. We first show that voters are more likely to vote for a candidate who shares their social group (signified by last name) as compared to other candidates. Using last name as...

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International Student Migration : A Partial Identification Analysis

Meango, Romuald - 2014

This paper studies the decision made by a family to invest in student migration. We propose an empirical structural decision model which reflects the importance of both the return to the investment and the budgetary constraint in the choice of the family. We circumvent the problem of endogeneity...

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Patient Mobility, Health Care Quality and Welfare

Brekke, Kurt Richard; Levaggi, Rosella; Siciliani, Luigi; … - 2021

Patient mobility is a key issue in the EU who recently passed a new law on patients’ right to EU-wide provider choice …. In this paper we use a Hotelling model with two regions that differ in technology to study the impact of patient mobility … on health care quality, health care financing and welfare. We show that without patient mobility quality is too low (high …

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Environmental Tax Reform in a Federation with Rent-Induced Migration

Garon, Jean-Denis; Séguin, Charles - CESifo - 2015

We study the welfare effects of a revenue-neutral green tax reform in a federation. The reform consists of increasing a tax on a polluting input and reducing that on labor income. Households are fully mobile within the federation. Regions are unequally endowed with a nonrenewable natural...

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...

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