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Tax Policy and Present-Biased Preferences: Paternalism under International Capital Mobility

Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - Institutionen för Nationalekonomi, Umeå Universitet - 2011

This paper deals with tax-policy responses to quasi-hyperbolic discounting. Earlier research on optimal paternalism typically abstracts from capital mobility. If capital is mobile between countries, it may no longer be possible for national governments to control domestic savings via capital...

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Food subsidies and poverty in Egypt: Analysis of program reform using stochastic dominance

Makdissi, Paul; Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Audet, Mathieu - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

analyze the impacts on poverty brought on by changes in the food subsidy system in Egypt. The Egypt Integrated Household … alleviating poverty. …

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The Geographic Determinants of Poverty in Albania

Makdissi, Paul; Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Audet, Mathieu - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2006

To better understand the geographic determinants of poverty in Albania, this article proposes a methodology similar to … poverty levels. …

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Taxation and Poverty

Chambers, Christopher P.; Moreno-Ternero, Juan D. - Departamento de Economía, Universidad Pablo de Olavide - 2015

head tax), and exogenous poverty-line rules (such as the leveling tax, and some of its possible compromises with the …

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Tax policy and present-biased preferences: Paternalism under international capital mobility

Aronsson, Thomas; Sjögren, Tomas - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 106 (2014) C, pp. 298-316

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Electricity Reforms in Mali: A Macro–Micro Analysis of the Effects on Poverty and Distribution

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2007

This paper uses a computable general equilibrium (CGE) microsimulation model to explore the distributional and poverty … electricity prices and changes in poverty and inequality among different household groups. Our results show that direct price … increases have a minimal effect on poverty and inequality, whereas the general equilibrium effects of such increases are quite …

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An impact analysis of climate change and adaptation policies on the forestry sector in Quebec. A dynamic macro-micro framework

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Gosselin, Véronique; Goyette, … - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2014

Quebec’s forests represent 20% of the Canadian forest and 2% of world forests. They play a major role for habitat preservation, supplying goods and services to the population and hence contributing to the economy of this Canadian province. Climate change (CC) will have an impact on forests...

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Analyse économique des impacts et de l’adaptation aux changements climatiques de l’industrie forestière québécoise à l’aide d’un modèle d’équilibre général calculable de type micro-simulation

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Savard, Luc; Goyette, Jonathan; … - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2014

Les forêts québécoises représentent 20 % des forêts canadiennes et 2 % des forêts mondiales. Elles remplissent de nombreux rôles essentiels tels que servir d’habitat à de nombreuses espèces, fournir des biens et des services, engendrer des retombées socioéconomiques ainsi...

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La fin des exonérations de TVA sur les biens agricoles est-elle favorable aux pauvres ? Le cas du Niger

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Quatrebarbes, Céline de; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2010

Afin de disposer des ressources publiques nécessaires à son développement, le Niger étudie la possibilité d’élargir l’assiette fiscale de la TVA aux biens exonérés et aux biens d’alimentations de base. Cette proposition a provoqué des oppositions violentes conduisant à poser la...

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Distributional impact of developed countries CC policies on Senegal : A macro-micro CGE application

Boccanfuso, Dorothée; Estache, Antonio; Savard, Luc - Département d'économique, Faculté d'administration - 2009

reveal slight increases in poverty when world price of fossil fuels increase and the negative impact are amplified with … increases in fossil fuels provides a weak cushion to poverty increase. …

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