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Unintended consequences of a pre-announced climate policy have been studied in a variety of situations. We show that early announcement of a carbon tax gives rise to a "Green-Paradox", in that it increases polluting emissions in the interim period (between announcement and actual...
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The paper assesses the distributional and efficiency/disincentive aspects of the Greek indirect tax system, which provides 60% of total tax revenue. The marginal welfare costs of broad commodity groups were computed to identify welfare-improving directions of reform. The disincentive effects...
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The increase of fuel extraction costs as well as of temperature will make it likely that in the medium-term future technological or political measures against global warming may be implemented. In assessments of a current climate policy the possibility of medium-term future developments like...
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-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In … investment incentives and transfer pricing induces inefficiently low taxes. … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit …
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. This paper analyses the investment incentives of such agents and the role of incumbency advantages in the contest …. Depending on the advantages, an increase in the productivity of the investment can decrease or increase the amount of investment …. The results are applied to autocrats' investment behavior and job specific investment in organizations. …
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There is a lack of clear evidence of the ways in which dividend taxation affects dividend distributions and investment … old view of dividend taxation. -- corporate income taxation ; dividends ; investment ; tax reform …
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In the absence of financing frictions, profit taxes reduce investment by their effect on the user cost of capital. With … finance constraints due to moral hazard, investment becomes sensitive to cash-flow and own equity of firms. We propose a … corporate finance model of investment and derive three central results: (i) Even small taxes impose first order welfare losses …
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multinational enterprise regarding the cross border distribution of its investment and the choice of its financing behavior. We …
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