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Throughout American history, the U.S. federal and state governments have imposed excise taxes on commodities such as alcohol and tobacco (and more recently, gasoline and firearms). Rates of such quot;sinquot; taxation, and consumption taxation broadly (including sales taxes and value-added...
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This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on the tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration. This in turn should shift their tax revenue from "easy to collect" taxes...
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Australia, Canada, the UK and US. Cross-country and time series variation in survey methodology and experience is used to assess … remained fairly stable in Canada and Australia; in the UK and US coverage rates declined sharply. Survey response rates and top …
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This paper explores the changing role of government involvement in health care financing policy outside the United States. It provides a review of the economics literature in this area to understand the implications of recent policy changes on efficiency, costs and quality. Our review reveals...
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What is the socially optimal level of liquidity in a retirement savings system? Liquid retirement savings are desirable because liquidity enables agents to flexibly respond to pre-retirement events that raise the marginal utility of consumption. On the other hand, pre-retirement liquidity is...
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. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising …-periods, and over the longer term with respect to the growth in the size of their economies. Most important, the comparison of an … controls over immigration or capital movements, or trade policy. Australia did, and after 1900 pursued an increasingly …
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vulnerability, drawing lessons from a detailed comparison of the response of Chile and Australia to recent external shocks and from … Australia's historical experience. We argue that in order to understand sudden stops and the mechanisms to smooth them, it is …
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Using original data from two waves of a survey conducted in March and April 2020 in eight OECD countries (N = 21,649), we show that women are more likely to see COVID-19 as a very serious health problem, to agree with restraining public policy measures adopted in response to it, and to comply...
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; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. Each of the three countries uses the Supply and Use framework (variant of Input Output … "production" approach inherent in the Supply and Use framework. In Australia and United Kingdom, the supply and use framework is … system, as an example of the European system, best meets the standard for international comparison purposes …
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Empirical cross-industry cross-country models are applied widely in economics, for example to investigate the determinants of economic growth or international trade. Estimation generally relies on US proxies for unobservable technological industry characteristics, for example industries'...
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