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Soda taxes are meant to improve public health outcomes insofar as they curb consumption of sugary beverages and thus …
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tax as an ad valorem tax on room price and assessing optimal tax rates accordingly to their incidence on the price of the …
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downstream. -- Specific tax ; ad valorem tax ; value-added tax ; tax incidence ; tax efficiency ; indirect taxation ; imperfect …This paper analyzes the effects of specific and ad valorem taxation in an industry with downstream and upstream … incidence tend to be qualitatively similar to models where the upstream market is perfectly competitive. However, both over- and …
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Empirical evidence suggests that people dislike ads in media products like TV programs. In such situations standard economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of recent advances in the theory of Industrial...
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Digital media goods and digital media platforms exhibit cost structures and network effects that imply that price and quantity effects of consumption taxes are qualitatively different compared to what we typically find for physical goods. For instance, in most European countries and US states,...
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burden households. We also study the implications of the financial sector's exemption from value added taxation (VAT). Main … results are that an increased taxation of the banks' profits goes together with a larger financial sector, as measured by the …
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burden households. We also study the implications of the financial sector’s exemption from value added taxation (VAT). Main … results are that an increased taxation of the banks’ profits goes together with a larger financial sector, as measured by the …
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This paper provides cross-country empirical evidence on the productivity of bank transaction taxes (BTTs).Our data set comprises six Latin American countries that have levied BTTs since the late 1980s: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Venezuela. We find that, for a given tax rate,...
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Using macro-level panel data, we examine the effects of taxation and tax progressivity on entrepreneurship in a large …
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Almost fifty years ago in 1965, on the steps of the State Capital in Montgomery, Alabama, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., asked a crowd of twenty-five thousand "How long will prejudice blind the visions of men, darken their understanding, and drive bright-eyed wisdom from her sacred throne?" The...
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