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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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The distribution of top incomes in five Anglo-Saxon countries over the twentieth century
Atkinson, Anthony B.; Leigh, Andrew - 2010
that have relatively similar backgrounds and tax systems: Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, and the US. The first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010270632
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Immigration Policies: Competing for Skills
Ochel, Wolfgang - In: CESifo Forum 01 (2000) 4, pp. 27-33
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Dynamic Effects and Structural Change under Environmental Regulation in a CGE Model with Endogenous Growth
Ramer, Roger - 2011
In this paper, we use a CGE model with endogenous growth to study the interplay between environmental regulation, innovation and sectoral growth. We find that a stringent reduction target for carbon emissions combined with a CO2-tax leads to structural changes. Under the assumption of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753217
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Economic Effects of VAT Reform in Germany
Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - 2006
In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has only negligible redistributive effects. Instead,...
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From destination- to origin-based consumption taxation: A dynamic CGE analysis
Fehr, Hans - 1996
This paper discusses the macroeconomic adjustment and the intergenerational and international incidence of a switch from the current destination-based value-added taxation to a origin-based VAT within a dynamic general equilibrium framework. Such a reform will affect the welfare levels of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435495
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The Optimal Threshold for GST on Imported Goods
Creedy, John - 2016
This paper examines the determination of the optimal threshold value for Goods and Services Tax (GST) for imported units arising from internet orders. The concept of an optimal threshold is wider than simply the maximisation of revenue net of administrative costs. At the optimal threshold, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012115707
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Trade, wages, and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2008
Canada-U.S. interregional trade data, we first estimate a system of theory-based gravity equations under the general … quantify the impacts of removing the Canada-U.S. border on wages, productivity, markups, the share of exporters, the mass of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268928
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Trade, wages and productivity
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2009
model is well suited to studying the impact of trade integration on aggregate productivity and factor prices. Using Canada … of removing the Canada-US border on wages, productivity, mark-ups, the share of exporters, the mass of varieties produced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506681
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Do central banks respond to exchange rate movements? A structural investigation
Lubik, Thomas A.; Schorfheide, Frank - 2003
main focus is the conduct of monetary policy in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and the U.K., as measured by nominal … respond to exchange rates. The main result of this paper is that the central banks of Australia, New Zealand and the U.K. do … not, whereas the Bank of Canada does include the nominal exchange rate in its policy rule. This result is robust for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010293466