The paper introduces taxes on income and profit into a model of a stock market economy. The optimal choice of capital stock is then analyzed under assumptions that guarantee unanimous shareholders' preferences and a formula for the cost of capital is deduced. There then follows a discussion of...

This paper analyzes the relation between stock market valuations of firms and the optimal choice of capital stock when markets are incomplete and firms act in the interests of a majority shareholders. No spanning assumptions are made. The standard unanimity results emerge as a special case when...

In this article, we portray the state of technically diverse economies as the outcome of probabilistic equilibria. We provide the steady state distributions of current technologies, unemployment, wages and job durations thus allowing the comparison of situations with identical mean values but a...

This paper evaluates the degree to which the American tax treatment of foreign earned income neutralizes the incentive effects of change in Canadian corporation income tax policies. The value of the tax transfers that would take place between the United States and Canadian treasuries for various...

Revenue collection requires the intensive exchange of financial information on economic transactions, revenues, expenditures, and incomes with a high degree of voluntary compliance. Furthermore, over the past 15 years the world has experienced a revolution in communication and information...

This report reviews the current administration of income and tax policy issues in Zambia and makes recommendations for reform of the income tax law and administration of the laws.

A Bolivian Mining cost index is constructed by combining the prices of the key commodities and weighting them according to their impact on the cost structure of the sector. Such a mining cost index could be estimated quarterly semi-annually, or annually according to the availability of the...