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the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …
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Extract: Infrastructure is undoubtedly the least understood of the major asset classes in Australia. A tradition of … public ownership and operation, its status as a public good and a lack of information about its investment characteristics in … economic recession of the late 1980s and Australia's microeconomic reforms of the 1990s b[r]ought into sharper focus the …
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marginal tax rates, investment horizons, borrowing premiums, high or low inflation environments, and different starting cost … example, many understand that taxes will reduce an investment’s return, but less understood is the risk-sharing nature of … taxes that also reduces the investment’s risk. This thesis examines how taxes affect the optimal asset allocation and asset …
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run counter to one of the core concepts for tax administration in New Zealand – the protection of the integrity of the tax …
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Using a simple analytical model incorporating benefits of a stock, costs of adjusting the stock, and uncertainty in costs, we uncover several important principles governing the choice of price-based policies (e.g., taxes) relative to quantity-based policies (e.g., tradable permits) for...
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behavior between these two approaches, then this may indicate that the current tax policy institutions are failing and need …
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This paper weights the relative advantages of multiple factors that lead to the success of professional sports stadiums in major markets, though a discussion of the arguments for and against public subsidies towards these projects. Using a logit statistical model, the paper determines that the...
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I was previously Director of Mutual Agreement Procedures, National Tax Agency ('NTA'), in Japan. This paper was written … be viewed as a successful model whereby tax authorities have reached agreement in a considerable number of cases of …
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a respectable 2.2 percent, driven by business fixed investment and exports. Private consumption has failed to support …
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The state,writes Douglass North, trades a group of services, which we shall callprotection and justice, for revenue. This paper explores the possibility that anefficient trade may not be possible, while providing an explanation for variation inthe degree to which such protection is provided. At...
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