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Optimal tax threshold: the consequences on efficiency of official vs. effective enforcement
Goyette, Jonathan - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2012
analysis, I show that the efficiency loss associated with evasion and corruption is of the order of 45% in Uganda. There is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684814
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Taxes and bribery: The role of monitoring, bargaining power and red tape
Gauthier, Bernard; Goyette, Jonathan - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2012
This paper investigates the negotiation over bribe and tax payments during the tax collection process in poor countries. We build a simple model where tax officials and firms bargain over bribes to let firms evade part of their taxes. Using a unique dataset on Ugandan firms we test the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010783574
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Fiscal policy and corruption
Gauthier, Bernard; Goyette, Jonathan - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2012
collection process. We examine the effect of fiscal policy and corruption control mechanisms on the prevalence of tax evasion and … corruption behaviour, and their impact on firm growth and social welfare. We first model a situation where bureaucrats are … probability of detection of corrupt bureaucrats which leads to a no-corruption equilibrium. However, when the public …
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Equity and Equality
Duclos, Jean-Yves - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2006
Is horizontal equity (HE) the "most widely accepted principle of equity"? Or does it stand in "opposition to the advancement of human welfare"? This paper argues that the case for the HE principle is not as straightforward as is usually thought and that it requires advanced notions of justice...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696344
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Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities
BOCHET, Olivier; GORDON, Sidartha - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2008
A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not su¤er from congestion and are non-excludable. We provide a characterization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731967
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Priorities in the Location of Multiple Public Facilities
BOCHET, Olivier; GORDON, Sidartha - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2008
A collective decision problem is described by a set of agents, a profile of single-peaked preferences over the real line and a number k of public facilities to be located. We consider public facilities that do not su¤er from congestion and are non-excludable. We provide a characterization of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008617066
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The Measurement of Diversity.
Bossert, W.; Pattanaik, P.K.; Xu, Y. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2001
The notion of diversity is an issue that is of relevance in several contexts. This paper provides an axiomatic approach to the measurement of diversity. We characterize two nested classes of ordinal measures of diversity and an important member of these classes.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545635
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The Measurement of Diversity
BOSSERT, Walter; PATTANAIK, Prasanta K.; XU, Yongsheng - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2001
The notion of diversity is an issue that is of relevance in several contexts. For example, the biodiversity of a given ecological environment and the diversity of the options available to a decision maker have attracted some attention in recent research. This paper provides an axiomatic approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005731965
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Probabilistic Assignments of Identical Indivisible Objects and Uniform Probabilistic Rules.
EHLERS, Lars; KLAUS, Bettina - Département de Sciences Économiques, Université de … - 2001
We consider a probabilistic approach to the problem of assigning k indivisible identical objects to a set of agents with single-peaked preferences. Using the ordinal extension of preferences, we characterize the class of uniform probabilistic rules by Pareto efficiency, strategy-proofness, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005353427
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Probabilistic Assignements of Identical Indivisible Objects and Uniform Probabilistic Rules.
Ehlers, L.; Klaus, B. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 2001
We consider a probabilistic approach to the problem of assigning K indivisible identical objects to a set of agents with single-peaked preferences. Using the ordinal extension of preferences, we characterize the class of uniform probabilistic rules by Pareto efficiency, strategy-proofness, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005545610