with an improvement in offshoring technology, we find that there is a role for a wage tax or a minimum wage in the …

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a …

We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as … endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax … allocated the revenue generated by its own alumni. In addition, we demonstrate how a budget-balancing graduate tax would …

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of … effects, which inform us about the conditions under which such a tax achieves its stated objective. Next, we consider the …

found that such tax can raise substantial tax revenue for the SMCs which could be used to enhance human capital in the … ; overlapping generations ; endogenous tax policy ; Mediterranean region …

Portugal introduced a sugar-sweetened beverages (SSB) tax in 2017. This study uses unique administrative accounting … comparison group, to assess the causal impacts of the tax on multiple firm-level outcomes. We find a 6.8% average decrease in … domestic SSB sales, vis-à-vis bottled water. The soda tax hindered SSB firms' financial health, namely net income, ability to …

, when a Pigouvian tax on conventional fuels such as crude is in place, the optimal biofuel subsidy is zero. When the tax on … crude is not available as a policy option, however, a second-best biofuel subsidy (or tax) is optimal. In the large …-country case, the optimal tax on crude departs from its standard Pigouvian level and a biofuel subsidy is optimal. A biofuel …

The home market effect (HME) is a distinguishing feature of the newʺ theory of international trade, but it is uncertain …