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This paper uses income and expenditure surveys from 1992 to 2014 and public tax and spending accounts to estimate the redistributive impact of Mexico's fiscal system over this period. It presents standard and marginal benefit incidence analysis for the principal public transfers (education,...
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The EU has a consolidated climate and energy regulation: it played a pioneering role by adopting a wide range of climate change policies and establishing the first regional Emission Trading Scheme (EU ETS). These policies, however, raise several concerns regarding both their environmental...
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This paper undertakes an empirical analysis of the adoption of various components of social security systems as well as contribution rates. Apart from economic determinants of the adoption, the empirical analysis features determinants relating to countries' political systems and contagion. We...
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Climate change economics mostly neglects sizeable interactions of carbon pricing with other fiscal policy instruments. Conversely, public finance typically overlooks the effects of future decarbonization efforts when devising instruments for the major goals of fiscal policy. We argue that such a...
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This paper revisits the relationship between labour taxation and international trade, focusing on the role of domestic …
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The level and composition of public expenditures and revenues both have implications for economic development, as shown … distribution-friendly expenditures in a crisis. …
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particular through reforms in the sources and types of taxation which are used to finance priority expenditures, and we argue … progressive public expenditures such as social protection, health, and education. Such 'linkage' yields a political dividend, and … switched between sectors. We examine, principally by regression methods, the impact of 'linked taxation' in five countries …
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In this paper we use the new Government Revenue Dataset to analyse fiscal decentralization. We find that developed countries are on average more decentralized than developing countries and that Asia, Europe and North America are among the most fiscally decentralized regions. In our econometric...
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