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Following renewed academic and policy interest in the destination-based principle for taxing profits-particularly through a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT)-this paper studies other forms of efficient destination-based taxes. Specifically, it analyzes the Destination-Based Allowance for...
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This paper investigates the currency reforms undertaken subsequent to the dissolution of the Austro-Hungarian Empire in 1918. The reforms were motivated by the lack of coordination of monetary policy and the absence of a rule for sharing seigniorage. Because the Successor States’ reforms were...
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Austria faces significant population aging. This will increase public spending on pensions, health care, and long …-term care, while tax and social security revenues will fall. This paper analyzes the fiscal burden facing Austria due to aging … and the policy steps necessary to address it. The paper finds that Austria is not well prepared to meet the fiscal burden …
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the recent past, ACE systems have been used in Austria, Croatia, and Italy. Brazil still applies a variant of such a …
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Austria has probably the world’s highest pension expenditures relative to its economic size, largely because of the …
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Cost-efficiency, scale efficiency, and productivity change are estimated by data envelopment analysis; and cost-efficiency is regressed on explanatory variables. No evidence is found for average productivity responding to deregulation over the period studied. State-owned banks are found to be...
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The Austrian government is about to introduce a new fiscal management framework. The first step is to introduce a medium-term budgetary framework, including an expenditure rule. The paper focuses on this first step. The purpose is to describe and evaluate the Austrian model in light of other...
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The "Great Trade Collapse" triggered by the 2008-09 crisis calls for a careful assessment of the trade losses from financial crises. We adopt a more detailed perspective by looking at the response of different types of trade (i.e. agricultural, mining, and manufactured goods, and services)...
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bank regulation. We build a structural model in which banks can strategically bunch their assets below regulatory …
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