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Measuring the social discount rate under uncertainty : a methodology and application
Ahsan, Syed; Tsigaris, Panagiotis Demetrios - 2002
It is well recognised that the issue of the social rate of discount applies only to the gains from public investment that accrues to the public sector. When it comes to measurement, however, there is a problem: public investment in infrastructure and the like do not usually yield direct...
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VAT notches
Liu, Li; Lockwood, Ben - 2015
) develops a formula for estimating the elasticity of value-added with respect to the statutory tax. We show that the marginal … excess burden of the tax on suppliers is measured by this elasticity, extending Feldstein.s analysis of the elasticity of … transactions, again consistently with the theory. We provide an estimate of the elasticity of the VAT tax base in the range of 0 …
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The economic effects of density : a synthesis
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Pietrostefani, Elisabetta - 2017
This paper synthesises the state of knowledge on the economic effects of density. We consider 15 outcome categories and 209 estimates of density elasticities from 103 studies. More than 50% of these estimates have not been previously published and have been provided by authors on request or...
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Application of stochastic optimal control to financial market debt crises
Stein, Jerome L. - 2009
This interdisciplinary paper explains how mathematical techniques of stochastic optimal control can be applied to the recent subprime mortgage crisis. Why did the financial markets fail to anticipate the recent debt crisis, despite the large literature in mathematical finance concerning optimal...
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Privatizing social security under balanced-budget constraints : a political-economy approach
Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2003
The aging of the population shakes the public finance of pay-as-you-go social security systems. We develop a political-economy framework in which this demographic change leads to the downsizing of the social security system, and, as a consequence, to the emergence of supplemental individual...
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The price of liquidity : bank characteristics and market conditions
Fecht, Falko; Nyborg, Kjell G.; Rocholl, Jörg - 2009
We study differences in the price paid for liquidity across banks using price data at the individual bank level. Unique to this paper, we also have data on individual banks' reserve requirements and actual reserve holdings, thus allowing us to gauge the extent to which a bank is short or long...
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The new systems competition
Sinn, Hans-Werner - 2001
While the old systems competition took place with closed borders, globalisation has brought about a new type of systems competition that is driven by the mobility of factors of production. The new systems competition will likely imply the erosion of the European welfare state, induce a race to...
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Holes in the dike : the global savings glut, US house prices and the long shadow of banking deregulation
Hoffmann, Mathias; Stewen, Iryna - 2015
We explore empirically how capital inflows into the US and financial deregulation within the United States interacted in driving the run-up (and subsequent decline) in US housing prices over the period 1990-2012. To obtain an ex ante measure of financial liberalization, we focus on the history...
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Betting the house
Jordà, Òscar; Schularick, Moritz; Taylor, Alan M. - 2014
Is there a link between loose monetary conditions, credit growth, house price booms, and financial instability? This paper analyzes the role of interest rates and credit in driving house price booms and busts with data spanning 140 years of modern economic history in the advanced economies. We...
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No price like home : global house prices, 1870 - 2012
Knoll, Katharina; Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas M. - 2014
How have house prices evolved in the long-run? This paper presents annual house price indices for 14 advanced economies since 1870. Based on extensive data collection, we are able to show for the first time that house prices in most industrial economies stayed constant in real terms from the...
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