ideas. The "Sacred Canopy" paradigm views it necessary for social stability to grant monopoly power to an official state …. Judaism in Israel illustrates the outcome in a monopoly experiencing potential competition, possibly leading to an oligopoly …

outcomes. The natural explanation is that Dutch dentists extract a monopoly rent, which we attribute to the limited supply of …

This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and … heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We find little evidence that the introduction of social protection programs for …

national tax reforms to union membership dues as exogenous shocks to unionization, we show that high levels of unionization …

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of … effects, which inform us about the conditions under which such a tax achieves its stated objective. Next, we consider the …

We examine ways of funding higher education, comparing upfront tuition fees with graduate taxes. The tax dominates, as … endogenized. We show that graduate taxes reduce work incentives but provide incentives to improve teaching quality. Yet if tax … allocated the revenue generated by its own alumni. In addition, we demonstrate how a budget-balancing graduate tax would …

For policy makers and analysts, it is important to isolate the redistributive impact of tax-benefit policy changes from … simulations in a formal framework based on the Shapley value decomposition and quantify the relative roles of (i) tax …

concerning the health effects of the consumption of fat and of healthy goods. The level of the fat tax is determined through ….A fraction of the fat tax proceeds is "earmarked" to reduce health insurance premiums while the remaining fraction finances a … welfare, anticipating the induced political equilibrium. We show that the fat tax in the political equilibrium is always lower …