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Indirect Taxes for Redistribution : Should Necessity Goods Be Favored?
Boadway, Robin - 2011
Atkinson and Stiglitz show that with weakly separability, differential commodity taxes are unnecessary given an optimal nonlinear income tax. Deaton showed that with an optimal linear progressive income tax, commodity taxes are superfluous under weakly separable and linear Engel curves. Using...
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Government Spending and Durable Goods
Boehm, Christoph - 2017
This paper shows that the fiscal multiplier for purchases of durable and investment goods is very small - much smaller than the multiplier for nondurable goods. Standard models predict small durables multipliers because private sector purchases of durable goods are highly intertemporally...
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Monetary Policy and the Relative Price of Durable Goods
Cantelmo, Alessandro - 2015
In a VAR model of the US, the response of the relative price of durables to a monetary contraction is either flat or mildly positive. It significantly falls only if narrowly defined as the ratio between new house and nondurables prices. These findings survive three identification strategies and...
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What Explains Fertility? Evidence from Italian Pension Reforms
Billari, Francesco C.; Galasso, Vincenzo - 2021
Why do people have kids in developed societies? We propose an empirical test of two alternative theories - children as 'consumption' vs. 'investment' good. We use as a natural experiment the Italian pension reforms of the 90s that introduced a clear discontinuity in the treatment across workers....
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On the Taxation of Durable Goods and Housing
Koehne, Sebastian - 2015
This paper proposes a theory of commodity taxation in the presence of durable goods. Optimal commodity taxes depend on preference nonseparabilities between durable and nondurable consumption. In particular, the seminal Atkinson-Stigliz result fails and differential commodity taxes are optimal...
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Exchange Rate Uncertainty and International Portfolio Flows
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria - 2013
is negative in all countries except Canada (where it is positive) in the case of bond flows. Under the assumption of risk …
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Modeling Uncertainty in Climate Change : A Multi-Model Comparison
Gillingham, Kenneth - 2015
The economics of climate change involves a vast array of uncertainties, complicating both the analysis and development of climate policy. This study presents the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks...
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On Welfare Frameworks and Catastrophic Climate Risks
Millner, Antony - 2021
Recent theoretical work in the economics of climate change has suggested that climate policy is highly sensitive to ‘fat-tailed’ risks of catastrophic outcomes (Weitzman, 2009b). Such risks are suggested to be an inevitable consequence of scientific uncertainty about the effects of increased...
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The Great Risk Shift? Income Volatility in an International Perspective
Buch, Claudia M. - 2021
Weakening bargaining power of unions and the increasing integration of the world economy may affect the volatility of … builds distribution risk into a real business cycle model, hypotheses on the determinants of the relative volatility of …
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Conditional Volatility and Correlations of Weekly Returns and the VaR Analysis of 2008 Stock Market Crash
Pesaran, Bahram - 2013
making and risk management. Over the past three decades there has been a trend towards increased asset return correlations … models proposed in the literature can be used to formally characterize and quantify market risk. In particular, we ask how … adequate these models are for modelling market risk at times of financial crisis. In doing so we consider a multivariate t …
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