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The macroeconomic effects of funding U.S. infrastructure

Malley, James R.; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2022

This paper quantitatively assesses the macroeconomic effects of the recently agreed U.S. bipartisan infrastructure spending bill in a neoclassical growth model. We add to the literature by considering a more detailed tax structure, different types of infrastructure spending and linkages between...

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On the optimal design of disaster insurance in a federation

Goodspeed, Timothy J. (contributor); … - 2007

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Atomistic congestion tolls at concentrated airports? : seeking a unified view in the internalization debate

Brueckner, Jan K. (contributor); … - 2007

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Are user fees really regressive?

Oikonomidēs, Geōrgios; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2012

This paper studies the aggregate and distributional implications of introducing user fees for publicly provided excludable public goods into a model with consumption and income taxes. The setup is a neoclassical growth model where agents differ in earnings and second-best policy is chosen by a...

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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 fees. Individuals differing in preferences decide using majority-rule the provision level and financing instrument. The median preference individual is the decisive voter in a tax...

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

Borge, Lars-Erik; Rattsø, Jørn - 2001

structure in decentralized government in Norway. The choice of revenue instruments studied involves user charges and property … 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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Rent taxes and royalties in designing fiscal regimes for non-renewable resources

Boadway, Robin W.; Keen, Michael - 2014

A fundamental issues in designing any fiscal regime for non-renewable resources is the balance between rent taxes and royalties. This paper reviews the core issues that arise, in terms of both efficient rent extraction and correcting various market failures. Issues of asymmetric information, for...

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Product unbundling in the travel industry : the economics of airline bag fees

Brueckner, Jan K.; Lee, Darin N.; Picard, Pierre M.; … - 2013

This paper provides theory and evidence on airline bag fees, offering insights into a real-world case of product unbundling. The theory predicts that an airlineś fares should fall when it introduces a bag fee, but that the full trip price (the bag fee plus the new fare) could either rise or...

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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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Higher taxes, more evasion? : evidence from border differentials in TV license fees

Berger, Melissa; Fellner, Gerlinde; Sausgruber, Rupert; … - 2015

This paper studies the evasion of TV license fees in Austria. We exploit border differentials to identify the effect of fees on evasion. Comparing municipalities at the low- and high-fee side of state borders reveals that higher fees trigger significantly more evasion. The central estimate from...

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