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Taxation and democracy
Mutascu, Mihai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
In this study we are examining the validity of relationship between level of taxation and democracy, using a panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147602
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"Rubber will not keep in this country": Failed development in Benin, 1897-1921
Fenske, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Nigeria's Benin region was a major rubber producer in 1960. In 1921, however, the government abandoned the industry as …'s wild rubber resources. The government was unable to protect Benin's rubber forests from over-exploitation. Expatriate firms …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008564514
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Cultures of Innovation of the African Poor: Common Roots, Shared Traits, Joint Prospects? On the Articulation of Multiple Modernities in African Societies and Black Diasporas in La...
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
innovative strategic groups are demonstrated, analyzing the case of the African poor in Benin and the African Diasporas of Brazil …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005616660
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Trees, tenure and conflict: Rubber in colonial Benin
Fenske, James - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
the Benin region of colonial Nigeria. Planters initially obtained land by traditional methods. Mature plantations were …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685064
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The Rentier State/Resource Curse narrative and the state of the Arabian Gulf
Rutledge, Emilie - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
This paper proposes that the Rentier State and Resource Curse theories be considered as two elements of the same paradigm which, despite a growing body of contrary empirical evidence, retains a hegemonic influence in political economy discourse. It will be suggested that a number of reasons...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011109574
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The Electricity Consumption in a Rentier State: Do Institutions Matter?
Bouoiyour, Jamal; Selmi, Refk; Shahbaz, Muhammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The core focus of this paper is to assess the relationship between the electricity consumption and institutions within rentierism phenomenon by incorporating economic growth, urbanization, trade openness and foreign direct investment in the case of Algeria. To this end, we have applied the ARDL...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011111150
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Inequality, imperfect competition and fiscal policy
2017
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011902288
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The political economy of the distributional character of the Greek taxation system (1995–2008)
Ioannidis, Yiorgos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011271689
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Pick Your Poison: Do Politicians Regulate When They Can’t Spend?
Johnson, Noel D; Matthew, Mitchell; Yamarik, Steven - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258763
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Исследование равновесий налоговой конкуренции в условиях монополистической конкуренции налогоплательщиков...
Kolesnik, Georgiy; Leonova, Natalia - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259733