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On the desirability of taxing charitable contributions
Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - 2007
provides a unified framework in which contributions are driven both by altruism and status signaling. We use this setup to re …
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Relative consumption and tax evasion
Goerke, Laszlo - 2013
Relative consumption effects or status concerns that feature jealousy (in the sense of Dupor and Liu, AER 2003) boost consumption expenditure. If consumption is financed by labour income, such status considerations increase labour supply and, hence, the tax base. A higher taxable income, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010319761
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Bling bling taxation and the fiscal virtues of hip hop
Engström, Per - 2010
The paper extends Ng's (1987) model of optimal taxation of diamond goods - goods that are valued solely for their costliness. We extend his findings by analyzing how other goods should be taxed in the presence of pure diamond goods; modified Ramsey rules are derived in a basic single-type model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321415
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Relative consumption and tax evasion
Goerke, Laszlo - 2013
Relative consumption effects or status concerns that feature jealousy (in the sense of Dupor and Liu, AER 2003) boost consumption expenditure. If consumption is financed by labour income, such status considerations increase labour supply and, hence, the tax base. A higher taxable income, in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291499
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A case for taxing education
Blumkin, Tomer; Sadka, Efraim - 2005
We illustrate a novel informational feature of education, which the government may utilize. Discretionary decisions of individuals to acquire education may serve as an additional signal (to earned labor income) on the underlying unobserved innate earning ability, thereby mitigating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261166
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A competitive equilibrium for a warm glow economy
Allouch, Nizar - 2009
to the normative and positive theory of public goods provision. First, it is a price based mechanism achieving efficient …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280776
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Effects of Tax Depreciation Rules on Firms' Investment Decisions: A Comparison of European Transition Countries
Nam, Chang Woon; Radulescu, Doina Maria - In: CESifo DICE Report 01 (2003) 2, pp. 52-55
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Noblesse oblige?: determinants of survival in a life and death situation
Frey, Bruno S.; Savage, David A.; Torgler, Benno - 2008
This paper explored the determinants of survival in a life and death situation created by an external and unpredictable shock. We are interested to see whether pro-social behaviour matters in such extreme situations. We therefore focus on the sinking of the RMS Titanic as a quasi-natural...
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Keeping up with the Joneses, reference dependence, and equilibrium indeterminacy
Stracca, Livio; al-Nowaihi, Ali - 2005
This model extends the keeping up with the Joneses (KUJ) model to incorporate the notion that positional concerns in consumption are best modelled with a reference dependence specification of preferences, as postulated by Tversky and Kahneman (1991) in the context of riskless choice. In line...
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An experimental investigation of intrinsic motivations for giving
Tonin, Mirco; Vlassopoulos, Michael - 2011
third one, T3, with a charity recipient and no crowding out, which elicits both types of altruism. We use T1 to assess to … intrinsic motivations for giving: warm glow and pure altruism. In particular, we implemented a within-subject experimental … towards the experimenters, (ii) the Crumpler and Grossman (2008) design, T2, in which the recipient is a charity, and the …
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