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Taxes or fees? : the political economy of providing excludable public goods

Swope, Kurtis J.; Janeba, Eckhard - 2001

This paper provides a positive analysis of public provision of excludable public goods financed by uniform taxes or …-skewed distributions of preferences choose taxes, while a majority coalition of high and low preference individuals prefer fees when … preferences are sufficiently right-skewed. Public good provision under fees exceeds that under taxes in the latter case. …

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A model of the card payment system and the interchange fee

De Grauwe, Paul; Rinaldi, Laura - 2002

We analyse a card payment system to assess the economic impact of the interchange fee. This fee is paid by the bank of the merchant, the acquirer, to the bank of the consumer, the issuer. We build up a mode in order to explore whether the interchange fee can enhance the participation to the...

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Tuition fees, as user prices, and private incentives

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs; … - 2016

services into a tax system with income and consumption taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in …

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Income distribution and tax structure : microeconomic test of the Meltzer-Richard hypothesis

Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2001

taxes oriented towards housing. While user charges act as head taxes, property taxes have distributive consequences. The … implies a shift in the tax burden from property taxes to user charges. …

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Tax competition, excludable public goods and user charges

Huber, Bernd; Runkel, Marco - 2004

This paper provides an economic explanation for the increasing reliance of the state on revenue from user charges on excludable public goods. We develop a model with many identical countries. The government of each country levies a capital tax on the domestic production sector and supplies an...

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A theory of user-fee competition

Fuest, Clemens; Kolmar, Martin - 2004

We develop a two-region model where the decentralized provision of spillover goods can be financed by means of taxes or …

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Socially optimal royalty design and illegal logging under alternative penalty schemes

Amacher, Gregory S.; Koskela, Erkki; Ollikainen, Markku - 2004

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Educating Europe

Poutvaara, Panu - 2004

could overcome this by allowing member states to institute graduate taxes or income-contingent loans, collected also from … Leviathan governments, graduate taxes or income-contingent loans could be based on voluntary contracts. Education would then be …

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Excludable and non-excludable public inputs : consequences for economic growth

Ott, Ingrid (contributor); Turnovsky, Stephen J. (contributor) - 2005

Many public goods are characterized by rivalry and/or excludability. This paper introduces both non-excludable and excludable public inputs into a simple endogenous growth model. We derive the equilibrium growth rate and design the optimal tax and user-cost structure. Our results emphasize the...

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Significance and determination of fees for municipal finance

Friedrich, Peter (contributor); … - 2004

The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...

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