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Mourmouras, Alex - 2004

We analyze how the altruism of an international financial institution (IFI) towards its lowincome member countries …. Thus, IFI altruism and the inability to commit are sufficient reasons to equip loans with conditions. Conditional loans … produce an efficient allocation of resources, so altruism is not a fundamental reason that loans fail to increase welfare …

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Should Subsidized Private Transfers Replace Government Social Insurance?

Fullenkamp, Connel - 2000

Private transfers between individuals or through organized charities are increasingly viewed as an alternative for government social insurance programs. This paper models the incentive effects of government subsidized private transfers and finds that while there is a significant welfare benefit...

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Microeconomic Implications of Remittances in an Overlapping Generations Model with Altruism and Self-Interest

Melkonyan, Tigran A. - 2008

The paper explicitly models the dynamic strategic aspects of the interaction between the migrant and the remittance-receiving relative(s), with the migrant behaving as a Stackelberg leader. It is also different from other formalizations of remittance behavior in its treatment of the two...

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What is Different About Family Businesses?

Chami, Ralph - 2001

developing countries. This paper develops a theory of family business that brings market forces and the family, as a nonmarket …

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Social versus individual work preferences : implications for optimal income taxation

An, Zhiyong; Coady, David P. - 2022

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Fiscal redistribution and social welfare

Coady, David P.; D'Angelo, Devin; Evans, Brooks - 2019

Fiscal policy is a key tool for achieving distributional objectives in advanced economies. This paper embeds the discussion of fiscal redistribution within the standard social welfare framework, which lends itself to a transparent and practical evaluation of the extent and determinants of fiscal...

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The optimal turnover threshold and tax rate for SMEs

Wei, Feng; Wen, Jean-François - 2019

Presumptive income taxes in the form of a tax on turnover for SMEs are pervasive as a way to reduce the costs of compliance and administration. We analyze a model where entrepreneurs allocate labor to the formal and informal sectors. Formal sector income is subjected either to a corporate income...

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Progressive taxation of extractive resources as second-best optimal policy

Wen, Jean-François - 2018

The paper provides a critical review of the literature on the concept of progressivity in the taxation of petroleum and mineral resources and offers a fresh perspective on its purpose and measurement. Regressive taxes, such as royalties, exist to satisfy policy objectives other than revenue...

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The Size Distribution of Firms, Cournot, and Optimal Taxation

Gersovitz, Mark - 2006

Tax laws and administrations often treat different size firms differently. There is, however, little research on the consequences. As modeled here, oligopolists with different efficiencies determine the size distribution of firms. A government that maximizes a weighted sum of consumer surplus,...

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Inequality and Optimal Redistributive Tax and Transfer Policies

Zee, Howell H. - 1999

This paper explores the revenue-raising aspect of progressive taxation and derives, on the basis of a simple model, the optimal degree of tax progressivity where the tax revenue is used exclusively to finance (perfectly) targeted transfers to the poor. The paper shows that not only would it be...

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