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Turnover (sales) is frequently used in developing countries as a presumptive income tax base, to economize on the costs of tax administration and taxpayer compliance. We construct a simple model where a size threshold separates firms paying turnover tax from those paying profit tax (regular...
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We argue that the U.S. personal saving rate's long stability (from the 1960s through the early 1980s), subsequent steady decline (1980s - 2007), and recent substantial increase (2008 - 2011) can all be interpreted using a parsimonious 'buffer stock' model of optimal consumption in the presence...
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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION -- II. ASYMMETRIC OLIGOPOLISTS IN AN UNTAXED ECONOMY -- III. ASYMMETRIC OLIGOPOLISTS AND THE SPECIFIC SALES TAX -- IV. ASYMMETRIC OLIGOPOLISTS AND THE AD VALOREM SALES TAX -- V. ASYMMETRIC OLIGOPOLISTS AND THE HYBRID PROFITS TAX -- VI. ASYMMETRIC OLIGOPOLISTS...
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When inflation originates from distributional conflicts, shifts in inflation expectations, or energy price shocks, monetary policy (MP) is a costly stabilization instrument. We show that a tax on inflation policy (TIP), which would require firms to pay a tax proportional to the increase in their...
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, suggesting a heightened role for precautionary savings. This paper uses a parameterized small open economy model to quantify the … role of precautionary savings in economies with exhaustible resources, when the only source of uncertainty is the price of … the exhaustible resource. Results show that the precautionary motive can generate sizable external sector savings. When …
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We propose a new machine-learning-based approach for forecasting Value-at-Risk (VaR) named CoFiE-NN where a neural … exchange markets. We report that CoFiE-NN outperfoms the conventional EGARCH-t model and the Extreme Value Theory model in … tail risk named tail risk ratio under CoFiE-NN. We discover that the only 20 percent of tail risk dynamics across 22 …
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We construct a country-level indicator capturing the extent to which aggregate bank credit growth originates from banks with a relatively riskier profile, which we label the Riskiness of Credit Origins (RCO). Using bank-level data from 42 countries over more than two decades, we document that...
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concerns about crypto assets been picked up in systemic risk assessment, and what can be done going forward? In this paper, we …, we propose a country-level Crypto-Risk Assessment Matrix (C-RAM) to summarize the main vulnerabilities, useful indicators … weave in specific vulnerabilities stemming from crypto asset activity into their assessment of systemic risk, and how they …
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