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Meals on Wheels : Restaurant and Home Meal Production and the Exemption of Food from Sales and Value Added Taxes

Ab Iorwerth, Aled; Whalley, John - 2021

This paper discusses efficiency considerations underlying the widespread exemption of food from sales and value added taxes, in contrast to the distributional considerations usually used to justify them, analyzing the implications for tax policy. Although there are increasing returns in both...

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Vat Base Broadening, Self Supply, and the Informal Sector

Piggott, John; Whalley, John - 2021

We develop a general equilibrium tax model to evaluate the impacts of equal yield base broadening in indirect taxes from high rate narrow based (typically manufactures) taxes to broad based taxes (including services) such as a VAT. We capture differences in choice of mode of supply between...

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Housing Dynamics Over the Business Cycle

Kydland, Finn - 2012

dynamics are documented here to be specific to the U.S. and Canada. In other developed economies residential investment is …

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Can Oil Prices Forecast Exchange Rates?

Ferraro, Domenico - 2012

This paper investigates whether oil prices have a reliable and stable out-of-sample relationship with the Canadian/U.S dollar nominal exchange rate. Despite state-of-the-art methodologies, we find little systematic relation between oil prices and the exchange rate at the monthly and quarterly...

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Public-Place Smoking Laws and Exposure to Environmental Tobacco Smoke (Ets)

Carpenter, Christopher S. - 2014

little is known about their effects on exposure to environmental tobacco smoke (ETS). We study these laws in Canada using …

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A Comparison of Micro and Macro Expenditure Measures Across Countries Using Differing Survey Methods

Barrett, Garry F. - 2013

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 … relative to national account is examined. Coverage rates are highest in Canada and the UK. Over the past three decades coverage …

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The Changing Role of Government in Financing Health Care : An International Perspective

Stabile, Mark - 2013

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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Commodity Currencies and Monetary Policy

Devereux, Michael B. - 2018

mechanism and test the over-identifying restrictions for Australia, Canada, and New Zealand. For all three countries …

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Immigration, Human Capital Formation and Endogenous Economic Growth

Ehrlich, Isaac - 2015

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill composition of migrants in major destination countries, including the US, has been rising over the last 4 decades. Moreover, the population share of skilled migrants has been approaching...

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The Wealthy Hand-to-Mouth

Kaplan, Greg - 2014

accounts). We use survey data on household portfolios for the U.S., Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy, and …

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