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Political Influence, Economic Interests and Endogenous Tax Structure in a Computable Equilibrium Framework: With Applicatioon to the United States, 1973 and 1983.

Hotte, L.; Winer, S.L. - Centre Interuniversitaire de Recherche en Économie … - 1998

A full understanding of public affairs requires the ability to distinguish between the policies that voters would like the government to adopt, and the influence that different voters or groups of voters actually exert in the democratic process. We consider the properties of a computable...

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Interests, Institutions, and Ideology in the Republican Conversion to Trade Liberalization, 1934-1945.

Irwin, D-A; Kroszner, R-S - George J. Stigler Center for the Study of the Economy … - 1997

This paper investigates the factors explaining significant policy change by studying how bipartisan support developed to sustain the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act (RTAA) of 1934.

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Party Loyalty as Habit Formation.

Shachar, R. - Foerder Institute for Economic Research, Eitan Berglas … - 1999

persistence over time in voting decisions. I present a new theory that suggests that the excess persistence in voting decisions is … due to habit formation, which means that utility is a function of previous voting decisions. The theory is tested using … implications and reject an alternative hypothesis presented by previous voting theories. Furthermore, the structural model is used …

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Two Roles for Elections: Discipling the Incumbent and Selecting a Competent Candidate.

Berganza, J.C. - Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros (CEMFI) - 1998

This paper presents a political economy model in which the voters want to control moral hazard on the part of the incumbent and select a competent candidate to be in office. We focus on elections which take place repeatedly as the basic disciplinary and screening mechanism. It is shown that...

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On Income Tax Functions: An Application of Robust, Regression-Based Diagnostics to Conditional Means.

Akhand, H.A. - Department of Economics, University of Regina - 1995

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Effective federal Individual Income tax Functions: A Further Exploration.

Akhand, H.A. - Department of Economics, University of Regina - 1996

This paper implements a variety of robust, regression-based diagnostics to nonlinear models of effective federal individual income tax. The paper proposes a generalized nonlinear model of effective income.

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Nash and Stackelberg Optimum Export Taxes.

Yilmaz, K. - İktisat Bölümü, İktisadi ve İdari Bilimler Fakültesi - 1999

This paper extends the partial (PE) and general equilibrium (GE) analyses of Nash and stackelberg optimum export taxes …

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Incentives and Disagglomerative Forces: Some Modelling Problems.

Guesnerie, R. - Département et Laboratoire d'Économie Théorique … - 1995

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`When Water Is No Longer Heaven Sent: Comparative Pricing Analysis in an AGE Model.

Decaluwe, B.; Patry, A.; Savard, L. - Département d'Économique, Université Laval - 1999

In this paper we present a applied general equilibrium model with special features that allows for comparative analysis of different pricing scheme. We look at Boiteux-Ramsey Pricing, Marginal Cost Pricing as well as an arbitrary water pricing increase for the agriculture sectors. A standard AGE...

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Real and Spurious Long Memory Properties of Stock Market Data.

Lobato, I.N.; Savin, N.E. - Department of Economics, Tippie College of Business - 1996

We test for the presence of long memory in daily stock returns and their squares using a robust semiparametric procedure. Spurious results can be produced by nonstationarity and aggregation.

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