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This paper examines the social economic value of the Greenland off-shore shrimp fishery. The contribution of the … the state and development of the offshore shrimp fishery in Greenland, as well as the changes in profits, sales and … production in the years 2006 and 2007. Financial accounts and costs data provided by the companies fishing in Greenland have …
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This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find considerable variations: estimated output multipliers lie...
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Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location for investment. We measure the effective tax burden on capital investment and on highly qualified labour in 33 locations across Europe and the United States. We then correlate...
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This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market institutions in an otherwise standard general equilibrium framework. There are sectoral wage negotiations for two skill types of workers between firms and trade unions. The...
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With the outbreak of the financial crisis in 2008, European governments extensively intervened to avert a severe economic recession. Taxation is a crucial instrument to achieve such economic objectives, but it also represents a redistributive tool in democratic societies. Generally, left-wing...
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This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are viewed as occupational groups, and moving up the skill ladder by acquiring additional human capital,...
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The article outlines recent developments of German tax policy.
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This paper analyses some fiscal aspects of mortgage debt in the EU. It first describes the main fiscal instruments that governments use to affect mortgage-financed home-ownership. In the empirical part, real mortgage debt growth is analysed for 15 EU countries using pooled regressions. Fiscal...
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In diesem Kieler Subventionsbericht werden die Finanzhilfen des Bundes (einschließlich Nebenhaushalte) und die Steuervergünstigungen der Gebietskörperschaften insgesamt bis zum Jahr 2018 dokumentiert. Im Jahr 2018 nahmen laut Bundeshaushaltsplan die gesamten Finanzhilfen des Bundes abermals...
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This paper examines the optimal time path of the tax rate, in a model where an increasing ratio of government debt to GDP is projected in the absence of policy changes.
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