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recent decades, and what they might look like in the next 20 years. Top marginal tax rates on labor and business income of … combination of reduced marginal tax rates, light taxation of income from capital and business activities, and increase of SSC …, have resulted in income tax systems that create disincentives to work and incentives for informality, and contribute little …
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Tax administration reforms can play an important role in fiscal adjustment. This role is examined by reviewing … Indonesia's tax reform cum fiscal adjustment experience since 2001. The paper describes Indonesia's fiscal adjustment strategy …, its tax administration reforms, and assesses the impact of these reforms on fiscal adjustment. Evidence suggests tax …
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alternative tax systems and identify potential distortions. Although the model is a highly simplified, it incorporates many …
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Policymakers are struggling to accommodate cryptocurrencies within tax systems not designed to handle them; this paper … concentrated at the top, but many crypto investors have only moderate incomes. The capital gains tax revenue at stake worldwide may …
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This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20...
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This study measures the impact of changing economic conditions in OECD countries on tourist arrivals to countries/destinations in Latin America and the Caribbean. A model of utility maximization across labor, consumption of goods and services at home, and consumption of tourism services across...
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This paper studies how the effects of government spending vary with the economic environment. Using a panel of OECD countries, we identify fiscal shocks as residuals from an estimated spending rule and trace their macroeconomic impact under different conditions regarding the exchange rate...
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Well-known empirical puzzles in international macroeconomics concern the large divergence of equilibrium outcomes for consumption across countries from the predictions of models with full risk sharing. It is commonly believed that these risk-sharing puzzles are related to another empirical...
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This paper discusses the key sources of vulnerabilities for pension plans and insurance companies in light of the global financial crisis of 2008. It also discusses how these institutional investors transit shocks to the rest of the financial sector and economy. The crisis has re-ignited the...
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How will the world-wide decline in real interest rates associated with global aging affect small open economies (SOEs) with aging populations? Lower interest rates will result in higher capital-labor ratios and increased wages; higher wages, in turn, will be passed on to pension benefits,...
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