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This paper compares the distributional effects of price cap and lump sum transfer policies to aid the affordability of subsistence electricity consumption. A lump sum transfer is more progressive than a comparable price cap on all units of electricity. We identify conditions under which these...
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In this paper we provide short- and long-run tax buoyancy estimates for a panel of OECD countries. Our results indicate … that total tax revenue estimates are not different from unity, corporate income tax buoyancies exceed unity both in the … long- and the short-run, while personal income tax buoyancies are smaller than unity; these results are robust to …
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We document the development and operation of the SWITCH model, Ireland's taxbenefit microsimulation model. Using the … and uprating, aiming at improving representativeness in terms of the income tax base and beneficiaries of social welfare …
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In this paper we examine the elasticity of Irish income taxation revenue with respect to aggregate national output - both GDP and GNP. This enables us to estimate the sensitivity of this key taxation aggregate with respect to changes in economic activity. It also allows us to compare the...
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is necessary if they choose public transportation. Furthermore a tax-deductible flat-rate per kilometer is required if …
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policy affects the Irish economy. Second, we compute fiscal multipliers for the main tax-spending instruments, namely … government consumption, public investment, public wage bill, public transfers, consumption, labour and capital tax. We focus on a … fiscal policy stimulus that is either implemented through spending increases or tax cuts. Third, we perform robustness …
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policies when the government uses a rich set of spending and tax instruments. Fiscal policy is conducted through constrained …
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The likely substantial impact of Covid-19 related measures on the public finances of European countries has prompted an unprecedented call for new and significant policies at a European level to alleviate the pressures on individual member states. The administrative closures adopted across a...
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A reason for revising the EU fiscal rules in the early 2010s was to improve member states' forecasts against a background of documented biases in official projections. Using data from Stability and Convergence Programmes and the European Commission's Spring Forecasts, evidence is presented which...
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Blanchard and Leigh (2013, 2014) find fiscal multipliers to be underestimated in the EU in the deep recession of the early 2010s. Using two 2013-2018 datasets for 26 EU member states, assembled from Stability and Convergence Programmes and the European Commission's Spring Forecasts, we show that...
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