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A Generalized Goals-achievement Model in Data Envelopment Analysis
Suzuki, Soushi; Nijkamp, Peter - 2008
Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) has become an established tool in comparative analyses of efficiency strategies in both the public and the private sector. The aim of this paper is to present and apply a newly developed, adjusted DEA model – emerging from a blend of a Distance Friction...
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Policy responses to fiscal restraints: A difference-in-discontinuities design
Grembi, Veronica; Nannicini, Tommaso; Troiano, Ugo - 2012
We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...
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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach
Niehues, Judith - 2010
This paper explores whether more generous social spending polices in fact lead to less income inequality, or if redistributive outcomes are offset by behavioral disincentive effects. To account for the inherent endogeneity of social policies with regard to inequality levels, I apply the System...
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Social Insurance and Redistribution
Boadway, Robin; Leite-Monteiro, Manuel; Marchand, Maurice; … - 2002
This paper studies optimal linear income taxation and redistributive social insurance when the former has the traditional labor distortion and the latter generates both ex ante and ex post moral hazard. Private insurance is available and individuals differ in labor productivity and in loss...
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Underreported earnings and age-specific income redistribution in post-socialist economies
Simonovits, András - 2009
We analyze underreported earnings and age-specific income redistribution in postsocialist economies. Pensions, other …
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Der Einkommenssteuertarif verteilt stärker um als je zuvor: Eine Simulationsanalyse
Brügelmann, Ralph; Schaefer, Thilo - 2012
Im Vorfeld der Bundestagswahl 2013 findet in Deutschland eine intensive Debatte über die Umverteilungswirkung der Einkommensteuer statt. Insbesondere mit der Senkung des Spitzensteuersatzes auf zwischenzeitlich 42 und nun 45 Prozent wird eine überproportionale Bevorzugung hoher Einkommen...
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The Propagation of Regional Shocks in Housing Markets: Evidence from Oil Price Shocks in Canada
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2018
provinces, government redistribution, and consumer spending on fuel. We empirically confirm the model prediction that oil price … shocks are transmitted to housing markets in nonoil-producing regions by the government redistribution of oil revenue and by …
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The propagation of regional shocks in housing markets: Evidence from oil price shocks in Canada
Kilian, Lutz; Zhou, Xiaoqing - 2018
variation in income in Canada because oil production is highly geographically concentrated. We document that, at the national … incorporates multiple sectors, trade between provinces, government redistribution, and consumer spending on fuel. We empirically … government redistribution of oil revenue and by increased interprovincial trade. …
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Ethnic diversity and attitudes towards redistribution: a review of the literature
Stichnoth, Holger; van der Straeten, Karine - 2009
We review the empirical literature that studies the effect of ethnic diversity on the welfare state and on individual attitudes. The outcome variables that we cover in the survey are on the one hand public spending, and on the other hand individual attitudes and behaviour, including charity...
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Import protection, business cycles, and exchange rates: Evidence from the great recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2011
This paper uses highly detailed, quarterly data for five major industrialized economies to estimate the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1 - 2010:Q4. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample of data provide evidence of two key relationships....
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