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Productivity, misallocation, and special tax regimes in the Dominican Republic
Azuero, Rodrigo; Bosch Mossi, Mariano; Cardoza, Marvin; … - 2019
. Finally, it analyzes the tax regulation and provides suggestive evidence about how some provisions might be contributing to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012107013
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Tax policy and entrepreneurial entry with information asymmetry and learning
D'Andria, Diego - 2017 - This version: February 2017
We study a market with entrepreneurial and workers entry where both entrepreneurs' abilities and workers' qualities are … subsidy to labour and a simultaneous tax on entrepreneurs to curb excessive entry, with learning a subsidy-only policy can be … optimal as the detrimental effects of excessive entrepreneurial entry are (partly or totally) compensated by surplus …
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Tax contracts and elections
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2009 - This version: December 2009
In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We consider a political game in which three parties compete to form the government. Parties have policy preferences about the level of public-good provision and benefit from perks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008746679
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Tax Contracts and Elections
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2010
In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We consider a political game in which three parties compete to form the government. Parties have policy preferences about the level of public-good provision and benefit from perks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014199808
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Tax Contracts and Elections
Gersbach, Hans; Schneider, Maik T. - 2009
In this paper we examine the impact of tax contracts as a novel institution on elections, policies, and welfare. We consider a political game in which three parties compete to form the government. Parties have policy preferences about the level of public-good provision and benefit from perks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011753187
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Federalism, Taxation, and Economic Growth
Hatfield, John William - 2006
We show that federalism will lead to higher economic growth. We present a model of endogenous growth where government services, funded by income and capital taxes, are a component of production. In this model a decentralized government will choose tax policy to maximize economic growth, while a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012734002
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Foolish Revenge or Shrewd Regulation? Financial-Industry Tax Law Reforms Proposed in the Wake of the Financial Crisis
Page, Richard T. - 2010
This Comment evaluates four recent proposals to reform tax laws affecting the financial industry. After introducing the proposals, the author provides a theoretical framework for evaluating them and then relies on this framework to explore the benefits and drawbacks of each. Ultimately, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135154
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Taxation and Durable Goods Monopoly
Kwak, Changhyun - 2020
This paper studies the role of taxation in durable good markets with dynamic monopolies. By conditioning the marginal tax rate on the volume of trade, the social planner can provide incentives for the monopolist to abandon sequential screening and clear the market immediately in unique...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012853715
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Prices vs. Quantities : The Irrelevance of Irreversibility
Baldursson, Fridrik Mar; von der Fehr, Nils-Henrik M. - 1999
We explore the efficacy of price and quantity controls in a dynamic set up in which the decisions of some agents are irreversible. We demonstrate that the assumption of irreversibility improves the performance of a tax relative that of a system of tradable quotas and significantly alters the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014204081
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Incentive Pay for Policy-makers?
Britz, Volker - 2019
We study how to efficiently motivate policy-makers to solve political multitask problems. Political multi-task problems typically have outcomes that are difficult to measure. Moreover, there are conflicts among citizens about optimal policies and the agents have the power to tax the citizens to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012896451