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We investigate whether laws restricting fiscal policies across U.S. states lead politicians to adopt more partisan regulatory policy instead. We first show that partisan policy outcomes do exist across U.S. states, with Republicans cutting taxes and spending and Democrats raising them. We then...
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The Australian Government has produced a CO2-equivalent tax proposal with a difference, it is a short prelude to an emission trading scheme that will allow the increasing rate of emissions to continue, while being a net cost to the Treasury. That cost extends to allowing major emitters to make...
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on the index of regulatory quality, because high quality regulation interferes less with the efficient functioning of …
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We analyze the effectiveness of some commonly discussed anti--corruption reforms on political corruption, using a theoretical model of competition between two candidates in a probabilistic voting setup. Candidates, who may differ both in their ability to produce the public good, and popularity...
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We build a New Keynesian model with imperfectly competitive goods markets and heterogeneous people and examine their impact on fiscal multipliers and on the net increase in output and expenditure caused by fiscal policies, using the balanced budget multiplier. Results show that in highly unequal...
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would expect an equally drastic change to have taken place in the structure of the taxation system. Nevertheless, no such … redistributive) character of the Greek taxation system. The aim of this paper is to provide evidence for this phenomenon from a … political economy perspective. The first section examines the general trends of taxation in Greece during the period 1995 …
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The effect of taxpyers' competition at jurisdictions' local markets on the properties of the tax competition equilibrium is studied. The general equilibrium model is considered with mobile firms acting under monopolistic competition on local markets. It is shown that equilibrium tax rate tends...
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the Green Morocco Plan (GMP), it should be noted that the question of its taxation was not as much in the central concerns …
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structure of the taxation system and its results only changed marginally. The explanation of this paradox lies in the peculiar … distributive (as opposed to redistributive)character of the taxation system. Namely, the fact that the government interventions … and specific social groups, instead of using this surplus to fund a reform of the taxation system aiming at a fairer …
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Notwithstanding the repeated efforts of the European Authorities to harmonize and coordinate countries’ taxation, and … in spite of the effects of international tax competition, in 2009 EA taxation was still far from being homogeneous among … detailed overview of the existing differences, in terms of taxation, among EA Members. Secondly, it aims at examining whether …
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