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obtain 8% and 1%. Dynamic scoring for the EU-14 shows that 54% of a labor tax cut and 79% of a capital tax cut are self-financing …We compare Laffer curves for labor and capital taxation for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries, using … US can increase tax revenues by 30% by raising labor taxes and by 6% by raising capital income taxes. For the EU-14 we …
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The importance of financial markets and international capital flows have increased greatly since the 1990s. How does …
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We develop a rational expectations framework to study the consequences of alternative means to resolve the "unfunded liabilities'' problem---unsustainable exponential growth in federal Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid spending with no plan to finance it. Resolution requires specifying a...
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European nations substitute between employment protection regulations and labor market expenditures (e.g., unemployment … adjustments than other labor insurance mechanisms. Venture capital and private equity investors are especially sensitive to these … labor adjustment costs. Nations favoring labor expenditures as the mechanism for providing worker insurance developed …
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exposures to NBFI and dollar funding, with less priority for regulations focused on residency (i.e., capital controls). After …
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energy over the entire life-cycle or products, including repair, reuse and recycling. CE innovations help to realize the … at the firm level. CE innovations such as the reduction of energy and material consumption or the recycling of waste …
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Overnight money market rates are the predominant operational target of monetary policy. As a consequence, central banks have redesigned the implementation of monetary policy to keep the deviations of the overnight rate from the key policy rate small and short-lived. This paper uses fractional...
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The relation between the ECB's main refinancing (MRO) rates and the money market is key for the monetary transmission process in the euro area. This paper investigates how money market rates respond to the new information revealed by MRO auctions. Our results confirm a stabilizing level...
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We study the impact of the interaction between fiscal and monetary policy on the low-frequency relationship between the fiscal stance and inflation using crosscountry data from 1965 to 1999. In a first step, we contrast the monetary-fiscal narrative for Germany, the U.S. and Italy with evidence...
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We study the intraday interest rate in a CCP-based GC pooling repo market and its key determinants. Since collateral used in this market is identical to collateral eligible for the daylight overdraft facility of the Eurosystem, any intraday rate in this market cannot be a result of collateral...
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