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Incentives to work and performance in the public sector

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2015

productive efficiency, in the public sector. We focus on reforms aiming to establish parity between work conditions in the public …

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Are user fees really regressive?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012

by the Ramsey government not only increases aggregate efficiency, but it also decreases inequality. This result is in … contrast to common view and policy practice. -- user fees ; Ramsey taxation ; efficiency ; inequality …

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The role of government in anti-social redistributive activities

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor); … - 2005

government share in GDP; and as a measure of government efficiency, we construct an index by following the methodology of Afonso … efficiency. Specifically, while a larger size of government is bad for incentives when one ignores efficiency, the results change … drastically when government efficiency is also taken into account. Only when our measure of size exceeds our measure of efficiency …

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Public providers, versus private providers, of public goods : a general equilibrium study of the role of the state

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2011

providers cannot beat private providers in terms of aggregate efficiency. We finally design a transfer scheme that can make a …

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Alcohol taxation and regulation in the European Union

Cnossen, Sijbren (contributor) - 2006

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Rent-seeking competition from state coffers : a calibrated DSGE model of the euro area

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos (contributor); … - 2006

This paper incorporates an uncoordinated struggle for extra fiscal favors into an otherwise standard Dynamic Stochastic General Equilibrium model. This reflects the popular belief that interest groups compete for privileged transfers and tax treatment at the expense of the general public...

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Europe's new border taxes

Cnossen, Sijbren; Verwaal, Ernst - 2001

Instead of abolishing internal border controls in 1993, the European Union (EU) replaced them with VAT and statistical requirements that appear to be just as onerous. For Dutch businesses, the compliance costs of the new requirements are, on average, 5 per cent of the value of their intra-EU...

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How should tobacco be taxed in EU-accession countries?

Cnossen, Sijbren - 2001

Ten Central and Eastern European countries, as well as Cyprus and Malta, have applied for membership of the European Union. Membership involves, among others, alignment of the taxes on tobacco products. Within the acquis communautaire, accession countries can choose between a predominantly...

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Monetary union, even higher integration, or back to national currencies?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2016

This paper quantifies the welfare differences among a monetary union, flexible exchange rates (economic disintegration) and a monetary plus fiscal transfer union (higher economic integration). The vehicle of analysis is a medium-scale New Keynesian DSGE model consisting of two heterogeneous...

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On the composition of public spending and taxes

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Park, Hyun; Philippopulos, … - 2015

This paper studies the implications of changes in the fiscal (spending-tax) policy mix when all categories of spending and taxes are according to their functional breakdown. In so doing, we build a general equilibrium OLG model which naturally incorporates the main functional categories of...

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