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Equity and efficiency measures of tax-transfer systems : some evidence for New Zealand

Creedy, John; Enright, Jamas; Gemmell, Norman; McNabb, Nick - 2008

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A note on discounting and the social time preference rate

Creedy, John - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 11 (2008) 3, pp. 249-255

This paper examines the discounting of money values in social evaluations using a social time preference rate (defined as the sum of a pure time preference rate and the product of the elasticity of marginal valuation and a growth rate). It is shown that this procedure can give a different...

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Equity and Efficiency Measures of Tax-Transfer Systems: Some Evidence for New Zealand

Creedy, John; Enright, Jamas; Gemmell, Norman; McNabb, Nick - 2008

The redistributive and efficiency aspects of personal taxes are of particular interest to both economists and … efficiency effects of taxes and transfers are not widely used in tax policy advice. This partly reflects the computational …, when presenting policy advice. This paper makes two contributions to the analysis of the equity and efficiency effects of …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115609

Policy Evaluation, welfare weights and value judgements: a Reminder

Creedy, John - In: Australian Journal of Labour Economics (AJLE) 10 (2007) 1, pp. 1-15

This paper is concerned with the use of social welfare functions in evaluating changes. In particular, it considers suggestions that welfare weights to be used in comparing the gains and losses of different individuals (or other appropriate units of analysis), and a social time preference rate...

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