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Do Tax Rates Encourage Entrepreneurial Activity?
Gordon, Roger H. - 1997
When the top personal tax rates are above the corporate rate, high-income individuals have an incentive to reclassify their earnings as corporate rather than personal income for tax purposes. U.S. tax law at least imposes strict limits on the extent to which employees in publicly traded...
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Economic Transition, Entrepreneurial Capacity, and Intergenerational Distribution
Rutherford, Thomas Fox - 2002
A defining feature of transition economies is the expansion of the private sector. Motivated by the observation that new enterprises in transition economies seem to have a strong preference for recruiting young people, this paper studies intergenerational redistribution following from market...
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CDS spreads in European periphery : some technical issues to consider
Bilal, Mohsan; Kumar, Manmohan S. - 2012
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Transmission of financial stress in Europe : the pivotal role of Italy and Spain, but not Greece
González Hermosillo, Brenda; Johnson, Christian - 2014
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Greece's investment gap
Hua, Shiqing; Méndez, María; Xu, Xin - 2022
Greece's investment rate plunged following the Sovereign Debt Crisis (SDC) and remained one of the lowest in the world … suggest that Greece has been under-investing since the SDC, with private investment notably lagging behind. The estimated …
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Healthcare reform in Greece : progress and reform priorities
Kalavrezou, Niki; Jin, Hui - 2021
We review Greek public sector healthcare policies and health-related outcomes since 2010.We find that excess spending was successfully curtailed, elements of the institutional framework were modernized, and health outcomes have been relatively favorable. However, especially prior to Covid-19,...
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Reforming the Greek pension system
Kangur, Alvar; Kalavrezou, Niki; Kim, Daehaeng - 2021
The Greek pension system has been costly, complex, and distortive, which has contributed to Greece's fiscal problems …
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A financial conditions index for Greece
Manning, Jonathan; Shamloo, Maral - 2015
We construct a Financial Conditions Index (FCI) for Greece as a surveillance tool to quantify the degree of the stress … (EA) as a whole and show that although the developments in the EA were qualitatively in line with those in Greece, they … were quantitatively much milder. Our results confirm that monetary transmission was less effective in Greece compared to …
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Broad Money Demand and Financial Liberalization in Greece
Sharma, Sunil - 1996
This paper develops a constant, data-coherent, error correction model for broad money demand (M3) in Greece. The model … contributes to a better understanding of the effects of monetary policy in Greece, and of the portfolio consequences of financial …
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Unemployment in Greece : A Survey of the Issues
Demekas, Dimitri G. - 1996
The Greek unemployment rate rose from 2 percent in the 1960s to 9-10 percent in the 1990s. This reflected the increase in female participation rates, the slowdown in growth, the restructuring of production, and the increased mismatch between jobs and job seekers. But the most crucial factor was...
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