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Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1976

This theoretical note proves a theorem on income tax rates. In particular, it proves that if the marginal utility of income is declining as income rises and if the relationship is represented by a rectangular hyperbola, under the equal proportional sacrifice principle, the tax rate will always...

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Small Firm Size and Health Insurance: A Private Enterprise Perspective

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007

This study has two objectives. First, it proffers and then empirically investigates what is being identified as the "small firm hypothesis," i.e., a hypothesis that the greater the percentage of firms in the U .S. that are "small," the greater the percentage of the population that can be...

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Effects of Economic Freedom, Regulatory Quality, and Taxation on Real Income

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

This exploratory study investigates the hypothesis that higher levels of economic freedom in an “economic region” promote a higher level of economic activity and hence yield higher levels of per capita real income in that economic region, ceteris paribus. However, in the pursuit of a broader...

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An Empirical Note on the Inflation Impact of the Price of Imported Crude Oil: The Case of Germany

Cebula, Richard; Saadatmand, Yassaman; Piccone, Yvonne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002

This study empirically investigates whether the assumption of the monetary authority in pre-2000 Germany that rising … prices of imported crude oil would lead to domestic inflation in Germany had validity. In a model where unemployment rate … changes, money stock growth, and wage growth are all allowed for, OLS estimation reveals that although the inflation rate in …

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Property Tax Capitalization within a National Historic District versus Property Tax Capitalization outside that National Historic District: Another Application of the Tiebout Hypot...

Cebula, Richard; Foley, Maggie; Houmes, Robert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010

This study has two objectives. First, it seeks to apply a hedonic pricing model to determine whether property taxes have been capitalized into the prices of single family homes located within in the Savannah Historic Landmark District in Savannah, Georgia. A total of 593 home sales over the...

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Local Government Policies and Migration: An Analysis for SMSAs in the United States, 1965-1970

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1973

This study empirically investigates the impact of AFDC (welfare) policies, per capita property taxation, and per capita local government spending on net in-migration by race to SMSAs for the period 1965-1970. The empirical results imply that black migrants on average are attracted to SMSAs with...

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Economic Freedom, Regulatory Quality, Taxation, and Living Standards

Cebula, Richard; Clark, Jeff - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

Using panel data for OECD nations for the period 2003-2009, the fixed-effects estimations in this study all provide strong support for the three central hypotheses considered here, namely: (1) the standard of living in a nation, measured in this study as the level of purchasing-power-parity...

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A Preliminary Analysis of the Presidential Approval Rating

Cebula, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004

This study empirically investigates whether the performance of the S&P 500 stock index, whose performance is treated as a surrogate for the performance of domestic stock/equity markets generally, influences the Presidential approval rating. After allowing for a variety of political factors and...

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Teaching Political Economy: On the Economics Significance of the Public's Job Approval Rating of the President

Cebula, Richard; Smith, Heather - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

This study empirically investigates the hypothesis that the lower the public’s job approval rating of the U.S. President, the higher the degree of aggregate federal personal income tax evasion in the U.S. Using annual data on aggregate federal personal income tax evasion for the period...

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Some Determinants of Interstate Migration of Blacks, 1965-1970

Cebula, Richard; Kohn, Robert; Vedder, Richard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1972

The results of this study for the 50 states imply that considerations of distance play an important role in the migration decision of blacks, with the distance variable being statistically significant at the five percent level or better in 80 percent of the cases. The racial composition variable...

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