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Individual responsibility and the funding of collective goods
Lévy-Garboua, Louis; Montmarquette, Claude; Villeval, … - 2007
introduce either taxation or rationing. Each treatment is subjected to two conditions: the burden of the deficit is either …-riding. Individualized taxation brings the voluntary contributions closer to the optimum while uniform rationing appears to be the worst …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268361
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Relational contracts, taxation and the household
Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2009
utility distribution, and then apply the model to examine the effects of a move from joint to individual taxation. We show …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269303
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Market distortions and local indeterminacy: A general approach
Lloyd-Braga, Teresa; Modesto, Leonor; Seegmuller, Thomas - 2011
We provide a methodology to study the role of market distortions on the emergence of indeterminacy and bifurcations. Most of the specific market imperfections considered in the related literature are particular cases of our framework. Comparing them we obtain several equivalence results in terms...
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Which Communities should be afraid of mobility? : the effects of agglomeration economies on the sensitivity of firm location to local taxes
Jofre-Monseny, Jordi (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712510
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The welfare loss from differential taxation of sectors in Germany
Radulescu, Doina (contributor);  … - 2008
taxation ; non-uniform taxation ; computable general equilibrium modelling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771793
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Welfare implications of public education spending rules
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, James R.; … - 2008
In this paper, we quantitatively assess the welfare implications of alternative public education spending rules. To this end, we employ a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which human capital externalities and public education expenditures, financed by distorting taxes, enhance the...
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Educational and wage risk : social insurance vs. quality of education
Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008
present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is diversified ex post among the skilled by graduate taxation and skill … taxation ; regressive tuition fees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806025
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Indirect taxation in vertical oligopoly
Peitz, Martin; Reisinger, Markus - 2009
This paper analyzes the effects of specific and ad valorem taxation in an industry with downstream and upstream … increase is more likely to be welfare reducing. We also demonstrate that downstream and upstream taxation are equivalent in the … downstream. -- Specific tax ; ad valorem tax ; value-added tax ; tax incidence ; tax efficiency ; indirect taxation ; imperfect …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003818019
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Should utility-reducing media advertising be taxed?
Kind, Hans Jarle; Köthenbürger, Marko; Schjelderup, … - 2009
Empirical evidence suggests that people dislike ads in media products like TV programs. In such situations standard economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of recent advances in the theory of Industrial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003820002
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Externality-correcting taxes and regulation
Christiansen, Vidar; Smith, Stephen - 2009
some consumption escapes taxation. In both cases we characterise the optimal instrument mix, and show how changing the …
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