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A public finance perspective on climate policy : six interactions that may enhance welfare

Siegmeier, Jan; Mattauch, Linus; Franks, Max; Klenert, David - 2015

Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future decarbonization efforts when devising instruments for the major goals of fiscal policy. We argue that such a...

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Tax expenditure budgets concepts and challenges for implementation

Villela, Luiz Arruda; Lemgruber, Andrea; Jorratt, Michael - 2010

Tax expenditures are generally defined as those government expenditures carried out through tax legislation …, regulations, and practices that reduce or defer taxes for some taxpayers. There is a general concern that the tax expenditures … systems. Many countries in Latin American and a few in the Caribbean already estimate their tax expenditures; but in many …

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National happiness and genetic distance : a cautious exploration

Proto, Eugenio; Oswald, Andrew J. - 2014

Italy do relatively poorly. Yet the explanation for this ranking - one that holds even after adjustment for GDP and socio …

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The new economic case for migration restrictions : an assessment

Clemens, Michael A.; Pritchett, Lant - 2016

For decades, migration economics has stressed the effects of migration restrictions on income distribution in the host country. Recently the literature has taken a new direction by estimating the costs of migration restrictions to global economic efficiency. In contrast, a new strand of research...

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Two centuries of bilateral trade and Gravity Data : 1827-2014

Fouquin, Michel; Hugot, Jules - 2016

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Economic implications of EU mitigation policies : domestic and international effects

Bosello, Francesco; Davide, Marinella; Alloisio, Isabella - 2016

The EU has a consolidated climate and energy regulation: it played a pioneering role by adopting a wide range of climate change policies and establishing the first regional Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). These policies, however, raise several concerns regarding both their environmental...

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Why does happiness respond differently to an increase vs. decrease in income?

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2021

The answer is that people's evaluations of their income situation are based on different considerations when the economy is expanding and when it is contracting. When, in the course of economic growth, incomes generally are rising, evaluations tend to be dominated by "social comparison" - what...

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Fancy a stay at the "Hotel California"? : foreign direct investment, taxation and firing costs

Görg, Holger - 2002

effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment incentives) and an index of hiring and firing costs (proxying exit … manufacturing is negatively affected by the level of profit taxation and exit costs. Hence, if countries want to attract FDI it may …

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Illegal immigration and the shadow economy

Camacho, Carmen; Mariani, Fabio; Pensieroso, Luca - 2015

We build a general equilibrium model in which both illegal immigration and the size of the informal sector are endogenously determined. In this framework, we show that indirect policy measures such as tax reduction and detection of informal activities can be used as substitutes for border...

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Localization economies and the sensitivity of firm foundations to changes in taxation and public expenditure

Wittrock, Christian - 2018

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