In the future, a ban of pay-per-view broadcasting will arise on certain events included on national lists in each EU country as put forward in the new ''Television Without Frontiers'' Directive from the 16th of April 1997. This paper analyses theoretically the consequences of such ban when the...

The existing literature suggests that the concern for economic efficiency calls for individual taxation of married couples with a higher rate on the primary earner. This paper reconsiders the choice of tax unit in the Becker model of household production, which includes previous analyses as...