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How to measure the tax burden on labour at the macro-level?

Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Volkerink, Bjørn - 2003

The purpose of this paper is threefold. First, we survey the way in which the tax burden on labour has been proxied for in recent multi-country macro-economic studies. Second, we critically evaluate these proxies. Finally, we examine to what extent the conclusions of some studies change if some...

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Macroeconomic Effects of Discretionary Tax Changes in Canada : Evidence From a New Narrative Measure of Tax Shocks

Hussain, Syed - 2019

In this paper we study the macroeconomic effects of changes in federal taxes for the Canadian economy for the time period 1961:1 - 2014:4. We employ the narrative methodology of Romer and Romer (2010) and Cloyne (2013) to identify exogenous changes in federal taxes. In particular, we study, in...

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Addressing the COVID-19 pandemic: comparing alternative value frameworks

Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Bloom, David E. - 2021

of benefit-cost analysis, utilitarianism, and prioritarianism in evaluating COVID-19-related policies. The relative … less aggressive control policies. Utilitarianism and prioritarianism, in that order, increasingly favor income … likely than utilitarianism or benefit-cost analysis to target young and socioeconomically disadvantaged individuals in the …

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Addressing the Covid-19 pandemic : comparing alternative value frameworks

Ferranna, Maddalena; Sevilla, J. P.; Bloom, David E. - 2021

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Pharmaceutical prices under regulation : tiered co-payments and reference pricing in Germany

Herr, Annika; Suppliet, Moritz - 2012

Many countries with national health care providers and health insurances regulate the market for pharmaceuticals to steer drug demand and to control expenses. For example, they introduce reference pricing or tiered co-payments to enhance drug substitution and competition. Since 2006, Germany...

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Government Intervention and Bank Market Power : Lessons from the Global Financial Crisis for the COVID-19 Crisis

Tan, Brandon; Igan, Deniz; Martinez Peria, Maria Soledad; … - 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic could result in large government interventions in the banking industry. To shed light on the possible consequences on market power, we rely on the experience of the global financial crisis and exploit granular data on government interventions in more than 800 banks across...

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Market Structure, Technological Gap and Vertical Linkage Effects from Foreign Direct Investment

Kadochnikov, Sergey; Drapkin, Igor M. - 2021

This paper is based on the model of backward linkages from foreign direct investment (FDI) Lin/Saggi (2003), where the market structure of the final goods sector is represented by a monopoly or Cournot oligopoly, and the supplier sector - by a pure monopoly. We extend this model by examining...

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The Impact of Monetary Union on Trade Prices

Anderton, Robert; Baldwin, Richard E.; Taglioni, Daria - 2021

Two seemingly unconnected empirical results suggest an intriguing mechanism. First, economic integration helps harmonize prices internationally, with trade being the primary channel (Rogoff 1996, Goldberg and Knetter 1997). Second, monetary union may greatly increase the amount of trade among...

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The impact on the South African economy of alternative regulatory arrangements in the petroleum sector

Bohlmann, Heinrich; Crompton, Rod - 2020

This paper adds quantitative analysis to the study by Crompton et al. (2020), in which various alternative regulatory arrangements regarding the petrol price in South Africa were explored. We use a multi-sector dynamic computable general equilibrium model for South Africa to conduct our economic...

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Who Listened? Unappreciated Teachings of the New Institutional Economics Related to the Financial Crisis of 2008

Richter, Rudolf - 2011

Who was listening before the Financial Crisis of 2008 to Arrow's warnings and the teachings of Coase? Due to transaction costs, incomplete foresight and bounded rationality not all risks that would be desirable to shift can be shifted through the market. Financial firms and other institutions...

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