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Growing together : Croatia and Latvia
Thorvaldur Gylfason; Hochreiter, Eduard - 2010
We compare and contrast the economic growth performance of Croatia and Latvia since the collapse of communism in 1991 … governance, and institutional reforms have played a significant role in raising economic output and efficiency in both Croatia … and Latvia. The EU perspective made a more significant contribution to growth in Latvia than in Croatia, even if Latvia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008697476
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Old-age provision in transition : the case of Croatia
Werding, Martin; Primorac, Marko - 2016
The Croatian system of old-age provision comprises a traditional public pay-as-you-go scheme and a mandatory funded scheme ("second pillar") that will provide increasing amounts of supplementary pensions to those entering retirement in the future. Due to the continuing economic crisis, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011429587
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Do leaders affect ethical conduct?
D'Adda, Giovanna; Darai, Donja; Weber, Roberto A. - 2014
We study whether leaders influence the unethical conduct of followers. To avoid selection issues present in natural environments, we use a laboratory experiment in which we form groups and assign leadership roles at random. We study an environment in which groups compete, with dishonest behavior...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010383805
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Trade, wages, and profits
Egger, Hartmut; Egger, Peter; Kreickemeier, Udo - 2012
This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009581985
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O brother, where start thou? : sibling spillovers on college and major choice in four countries
Altmejd, Adam; Barrios-Fernández, Andrés; Drlje, Marin; … - 2020 - Latest version: May 10, 2020
options, we present evidence from the United States, Chile, Sweden and Croatia that older siblings' college and major choices …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012219366
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Which Communities should be afraid of mobility? : the effects of agglomeration economies on the sensitivity of firm location to local taxes
Jofre-Monseny, Jordi (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712510
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Fiscal policy and the banking system in Italy : have taxes, public spending and banks been procyclical in the long-run?
Piluso, Giandomenico (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper analyses the relations between the banking system fluctuations, on one hand, and taxation and public …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003779453
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The welfare loss from differential taxation of sectors in Germany
Radulescu, Doina (contributor);  … - 2008
taxation ; non-uniform taxation ; computable general equilibrium modelling …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771793
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Welfare implications of public education spending rules
Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Malley, James R.; … - 2008
In this paper, we quantitatively assess the welfare implications of alternative public education spending rules. To this end, we employ a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model in which human capital externalities and public education expenditures, financed by distorting taxes, enhance the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806000
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Educational and wage risk : social insurance vs. quality of education
Schindler, Dirk; Weigert, Benjamin - 2008
present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is diversified ex post among the skilled by graduate taxation and skill … taxation ; regressive tuition fees …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003806025