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Public provision and local income tax competition
Kuhlmey, Florian; Hintermann, Beat - 2016
We extend the literature on local income tax competition by allowing for inter-jurisdictional spillovers and imperfect rivalry in consumption of a publicly provided good. Comparing decentralized second-best results of a theoretical model with an efficient benchmark, we identify three...
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Welfare effect of closing loopholes in the dividend-withholding tax : the case of cum-cum and cum-ex transactions
Casi-Eberhard, Elisa; Gavrilova, Evelina; Murphy, David; … - 2022
We study the effect of reforms that close loopholes in the enforcement of the dividend-withholding tax (DWT). We focus on a Danish reform enacted in 2016, and compare Denmark to its Nordic neighbors. Our main outcome of interest is the quantity of stocks on loan. Before the reform all Nordic...
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Growth and welfare under endogenous lifetime
Schneider, Maik T.; Winkler, Ralph - 2017 - This Version: February 2017
We study the role of endogenous healthcare choices by households to extend their expected lifetimes on economic growth and welfare in a decentralized overlapping generations economy with the realistic feature that households' savings are held in annuities. We characterize healthcare spending in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011611936
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Environmental tax reform and income distribution with imperfect heterogenous markets
Aubert, Diane; Chiroleu-Assouline, Mireille - 2017
This paper investigates the distributional and efficiency consequences of an environmental tax reform, when the revenue from the green tax is recycled by varying labor tax rates. We build a general equilibrium model with imperfect heterogeneous labor markets, pollution consumption externalities,...
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Analysis of monetary policy and financial stability : a new paradigm
Goodhart, Charles A. E.; Osorio, Carolina; Tsomocos, … - 2009
This paper introduces agent heterogeneity, liquidity, and endogenous default to a DSGE framework. Our model allows for … the economy. Due to liquidity and endogenous default, the transmission mechanism of shocks is well defined, and their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003923247
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Liquidity and international trade
Rodríguez López, Antonio - 2016
the international allocation of economic activity. Private assets’ liquidity properties - their usefulness as collateral … entry, production, aggregate productivity, and total market capitalization. In a closed economy, the liquidity market …, cross-country differences in financial development|as measured by the degree of liquidity of a country’s assets - generate …
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Native welfare losses from high skilled immigration
Kemnitz, Alexander (contributor) - 2008
This paper explores the effects of high skilled immigration to a host country with unionized low skilled labor and an unemployment insurance scheme. We show that such immigration can create a negative immigration surplus due to adverse effects on low skilled employment, provided that fiscal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763021
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Strategic supply function competition with private information
Vives, Xavier (contributor) - 2008
A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003763172
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Taxes and the efficiency costs of capital distortions
Weichenrieder, Alfons J. (contributor);  … - 2008
departure from tax neutrality. Against this background, the present paper discusses the theory of capital structure and provides …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771865
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Intellectual property rights, technology transfer and exports in developing countries
Yang, Lei (contributor); Maskus, Keith E. (contributor) - 2008
We develop a model to analyze one mechanism under which stronger intellectual property rights (IPR) protection may improve the ability of firms in developing countries to break into export markets. A Northern firm with a superior process technology chooses either exports or technology transfer...
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