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Common ownership of competing firms : evidence from Australia

Leigh, Andrew; Triggs, Adam - 2021

We provide the first estimates of the extent of common ownership of competing firms in Australia. Combining data on … limitations of the available data, and the potential implications of common ownership for competition in Australia. …

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Inequality and market concentration : new evidence from Australia

Hotchin, Lachlan; Leigh, Andrew - 2024

of market concentration in the industries where Australia's wealthiest made their fortunes. Compared with the economy at …

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Optimal taxation and the household

Apps, Patricia; Rees, Ray - 2016

This paper analyses optimal piecewise linear tax systems for two-earner households, based on joint and individual incomes respectively. It models the interaction between wage rates and variation in child care prices and productivities as determinants of across-household heterogeneity in second...

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Health adjusted GDP (HAGDP) measures of the relationship between economic growth, health outcomes and social welfare

Clarke, Matthew; Islam, Sardar M. N. - 2003

they can fail to adequately consider social welfare issues, such as equity and efficiency. Social choice theory allows … growth on social welfare. Social choice theory incorporates the various social concerns that are not adequately captured … (costs and benefits) using Thailand and Australia as case studies, from 1975 to 1999. Two health adjusted gross domestic …

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Carbon Leakage and capacity-based allocations : is the EU right?

Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - 2012

based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best …

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Employment and taxes

Nickell, Stephen J. - 2003

This paper considers the impact of taxation policy on market work. On the basis of the evidence, we find that a 10 percentage point rise in the tax wedge will reduce overall labour input provided via the market by around 2 per cent of the population of working age. The tax wedge is the sum of...

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Facing demographic challenges : pension cuts or tax hikes

Kudrna, George; Tran, Chung; Woodland, Alan D. - 2015

In this paper, we investigate two fiscal policy options to mitigate fiscal pressure arising from ageing of the Australian population: pension cuts or tax hikes. Using a computable overlapping generations model, we find that while both policy options achieve the same fiscal goal, the...

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Progressive tax changes to superannuation in a lifecycle framework

Kudrna, George; Woodland, Alan D. - 2015

superannuation (Australia.s term for private pensions) with traditional EET and TEE regimes. These taxation regimes exempt pension … free. Using an overlapping-generations model calibrated for Australia, we find that these hypothetical superannuation tax …

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Trade interdependence, arming and the choice between war and peace

Garfinkel, Michelle Robin; Syropoulos, Constantinos - 2025 - Current Version: March 29, 2025

We consider a dynamic setting where two countries with competing claims to a resource/asset first arm and then choose whether to resolve their dispute through war or peacefully through settlement. War precludes international trade and can be destructive, but also locks gains and eliminates...

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Trade, trees, and contingent trade agreements

Harstad, Bård - 2022

Can trade agreements motivate environmental conservation? I first present a model whereby the government in the South expands its production capacity (e.g., deforest) before trading with the North. After deriving negative relationships between tariff reductions and conservation, I show how all...

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