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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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of national accounts benchmarks, availability annual and quarterly GDP estimates, vintage of the System of National … Accounts (SNA), index formula used for calculating annual constant price (volume) estimates, availability of GDP by different … approaches, timeliness of disseminating and annual and quarterly GDP estimates, availability institutional sector accounts, and …
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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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This paper revisits the relationship between labour taxation and international trade, focusing on the role of domestic …
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The level and composition of public expenditures and revenues both have implications for economic development, as shown … distribution-friendly expenditures in a crisis. …
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Is there a minimum tax to GDP ratio associated with a significant acceleration in the process of growth and development …? We give an empirical answer to this question by investigating the existence of a tipping point in tax-to-GDP levels. We … are similar at about 12 3/4 percent of GDP. For the contemporary dataset we find that a country just above the threshold …
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This paper revisits the effects of corruption on the state's capacity to raise revenue, building on the existing empirical literature using new and more disaggregated data. We use a comprehensive dataset for 147 countries spanning 1995-2014, compiled by the IMF. It finds that-consistent with the...
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