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Can policies affect employment intensity of growth? : a cross-country analysis
Crivelli, Ernesto; Furceri, Davide; Toujas-Bernaté, Joël - 2012
The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the period 1991 - 2009, the results suggest that structural...
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Assessing the variability of tax elasticities in Lithuania
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2011
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009419621
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Tax elasticity estimates for capital stocks in Canada
Wen, Jean-François; Yilmaz, Fatih - 2020
The paper provides estimates of the long-run, tax-adjusted, user cost elasticity of capital (UCE) in a small open … semi-elasticity of the stock of M and E with respect to the METR is about -0.2, suggesting, for example, that a 5 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012251411
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Are elasticities of taxable income rising?
Klemm, Alexander; Liu, Li; Mylonas, Victor; Wingender, … - 2018
This paper assesses a possible explanation for the global downward trend in top personal income tax rates over the last decades: globalization and the related tax evasion and avoidance opportunities could have raised elasticities of taxable income, which would imply lower optimal tax rates. The...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011878756
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Assessing the Variability of Tax Elasticities in Lithuania
Poghosyan, Tigran - 2011
This paper quantifies the variability of tax elasticities in Lithuania using two alternative methods: rolling regressions and pooled mean group estimator. The analysis is motivated by the systematic variation of tax revenues observed over the economic cycle in the recent past. Both methods...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397367
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Elasticity Optimism
International Monetary Fund - 2009
trade data. We impose homogeneity, and find an aggregate elasticity similar in value to conventional macroeconomic estimates …
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Exchange Rates and Wages in an Integrated World
Spilimbergo, Antonio - 2009
domestic and foreign labor markets. Using data from 66 countries over the period 1981–2005, we find that the elasticity of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403912
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Macroeconomic consequences of tariffs
Furceri, Davide; Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali; Ostry, … - 2019
We study the macroeconomic consequences of tariffs. We estimate impulse response functions from local projections using …. The effects on output and productivity tend to be magnified when tariffs rise during expansions, for advanced economies …, and when tariffs go up, not down. Our results are robust to a large number of perturbations to our methodology, and we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012001500
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Firm-level data and monetary policy : the case of a middle-income country
Bounader, Lahcen; Doukali, Mohamed - 2019
We test the existence of the balance sheet channel of monetary policy in a middle-income country. Firm-level data scarcity and quality, in such a context, make the identification of this channel a steep challenge. To circumvent this challenge, we use panel instrumental variables estimation with...
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