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Human Capital and Optimal Policy under Risk and Credit Constraints
Yang, Hongyan - 2010
Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus fünf unabhängigen Forschungspapieren über optimale Steuer- und Bildungspolitik, welche ich während meines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität Konstanz erstellt habe. Private Versicherungen gegen Einkommensrisiko können aufgrund von moral hazard...
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Education, Innovation, and Growth - Critical Appraisal and Cliometric Analyses with Implications for Present Economic Policy
Müller, Normann - 2009
'public finance', 'political economy', 'growth theory', 'human capital theory', and 'innovation-driven growth theory …'.The first project reveals that the prevailing notion of education externalities is misleading and therefore empirical … externalities of education according to Lucas (1988) are likely to be internalized on the labor market. Education is recognized as a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009475316
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Appropriation Externalities in the Commons: Theory and Experimental Evidence
Herr, Andrew - 1996
of the commons.' This dissertation combines the tools of game theory and experimental methods to gain a broader … conducted. A distinction is made between two types of appropriation externalities: those that are restricted to a single period …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009468337
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Matching Issues: An auction with externalities and unraveling matching markets
Ranger, Martin - 2005
externalities, however, efficiency may no longer be guaranteed.This dissertation shows that a modification of Ausubel & Milgrom … presence of externalities, the resulting auction possessesan efficient Nash equilibrium in pure strategies leading to a core … strategy. The auction is augmented to includeexplicitly the auctioneer's preferences over final outcomes. Externalities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009450582
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The Impact of Optimal Tariffs and Taxes on Agglomeration
Ross, Matthias - 2002
This paper extends an economic geography model by tariffs to analyze their impact on welfare and sustainability of agglomerations. Policies with and without cooperation are compared, with the goal of maximizing aggregated welfare in the former and regional welfare in the latter case. The main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442393
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Risk, Behavior and Evolution
Netzer, Nick - 2007
Diese Doktorarbeit besteht aus vier eigenständigen Forschungsarbeiten, die in der Zeit von Oktober 2004 bis Oktober 2007 geschrieben wurden, während ich Teilnehmer am "Doctoral Programme in Quantitative Economics and Finance" an der Universität Konstanz war. Meine Forschungsinteressen...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009471697
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Taxing Risky Capital Income – A Commodity Taxation Approach
Schindler, Dirk - 2008
In a two-period world with endogenous savings and two assets, the optimal tax structure and optimal diversification of aggregate (capital) risk between private and public consumption are analyzed. We show that there is no trade-off between efficiency in intertemporal consumption and allocation...
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Taxation and Evasion in the Presence of Extortion byOrganized Crime
Alexeev, Michael; Janeba, Eckhard; Osborne, Stefan - 1999
In pursuit of its transition from a command to a market economy, post-Soviet Russia has witnessed enormous regional differences in economic growth rates. Moreover, the economic reforms implemented under this transition, while initiated at the federal level, have also differed markedly across...
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Effective taxation in the Baltic States
Juzumaitė, Milda - 2009
The objectives if this thesis is to estimate whether there is an inverse relationship between the personal income tax rates and national revenues with reference to the theories of supply-side economist Arthur B. Laffer. Measure the effectiveness of corporate income tax system by analyzing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009478589
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Optimal Tax Mix in a Two-Sector Growth Model with Transitional Dynamics
Davies, James B.; Zhang, Jie; Zeng, Jinli - 2000
This paper examines the problem of optimal tax mix analytically in a two-sector growth model with transitional dynamics. Tax revenue is required to provide a pure public good. The key problems are: over-consumption of leisure under labor income or consumption taxes; and under-investment in human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009447228