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Taxation, Industry Integration and Production Efficiency
Moriconi, Simone - 2016
economies. Theories of optimal taxation conclude that these taxes are detrimental to production efficiency, when firms operate … production units. The present paper investigates the effects of taxation on production efficiency, accounting for the … effect of this "tax induced organizational change" on production efficiency ultimately depends on the characteristics of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012984733
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Fiscal Decentralization and Public Sector Efficiency : Evidence from OECD Countries
Adam, Antonis - 2008
This paper attempts to identify the effect of fiscal decentralization on public sector efficiency (PSE). We employ data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012770638
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Macroeconomic Consequences of Distributional Conflicts
Schaefer, Andreas; Steger, Thomas Michael - 2021
This paper aims at better understanding the inefficiency due to distributional conflicts, which are inherent in every market economy. To this end, we set up a simple general equilibrium model with the following characteristics: two groups of agents (capitalists and workers), an endogenous income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317028
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Incentive Schemes for Local Government : Theory and Evidence from Comprehensive Performance Assessment in England
Lockwood, Ben - 2011
, but have an ambiguous effect on the efficiency of service provision. We test these predictions using a difference in … not subject to the same CPA regime. To do this, we construct original indices of service quality and efficiency, using … efficiency indices. There is evidence of heterogeneous effects of CPA on efficiency, with some evidence that CPA impacted more on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124097
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Income Taxation, Tuition Subsidies, and Choice of Occupation : Implications for Production Efficiency
Bjertnæs, Geir H. - 2006
The desirability for production efficiency is re-examined in this study, where agents choose occupation based on … lifetime income net of tuition costs. Efficient revenue raising implies that the government should trade off efficiency in … production for efficiency in intertemporal consumption, as capital income is taxed in optimum. The subsequent wage difference …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783359
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Efficiency Potential and Efficiency Variation in Norwegian Lower Secondary Schools
Borge, Lars-Erik - 2006
The paper performs an efficiency analysis of the lower secondary school sector in Norway. The efficiency potential is … background) as outputs. The analysis of the determinants of efficiency indicates that a high level of municipal revenue, a high … efficiency. The negative effects of the share of socialists and party fragmentation seem to reflect both higher resource use and …
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Fiscal Adjustment and the Costs of Public Debt Service : Evidence from OECD Countries
Schaltegger, Christoph A. - 2011
We use a panel of 21 OECD countries from 1970 to 2009 to investigate the effects of different fiscal adjustment strategies on long-term interest rates – a key fiscal indicator reflecting the costs of government debt service. A government confronted with high deficits and rising debt will...
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Which Sectors of a Modern Economy are Most Central?
Bloechl, Florian - 2010
We analyze input-output matrices for a wide set of countries as weighted directed networks. These graphs contain only 47 nodes, but they are almost fully connected and many have nodes with strong self-loops. We apply two measures: random walk centrality and one based on count-betweenness. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137865
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Labour Market Institutions and Unemployment- An International Comparison
Flaig, Gebhard - 2011
This paper deals with the effects of labour market institutions on unemployment in a panel of 19 OECD countries for the period 1960 to 2003 In contrast to many other studies, we use long time series and analyze cyclically adjusted trend values of the unemployment rate. Our novel contribution is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013120904
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Do Government Purchases Affect Unemployment?
Holden, Steinar - 2011
We investigate empirically the effect of government purchases on unemployment in 20 OECD countries, for the period 1960-2007. Compared to earlier studies we use a data set with more variation in unemployment, and which allows for controlling for a host of factors that influence the effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124098