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The Smallest General-Equilibrium Model in the World - Major Lessons for Tax Policy
Maillard, Didier - 2013
General-Equilibrium (GE) models were revived in the mid 1980s, in the computable form allowed by the progresses of information technology. They have been applied to the assessment of many economic policies, especially taxation, international trade and intergenerational transfers. A new recent...
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A Guide to the Political Economy of Reforming Energy Subsidies
Commander, Simon - 2012
Energy subsidies are used widely. Although adverse from an efficiency perspective, subsidies confer private benefits on … overcoming the barriers to reform. The starting point is to look at the motives lying behind the adoption of energy subsidies … then looks at the characteristics of countries that use energy subsidies. Countries with weak institutions - often non …
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A guide to the political economy of reforming energy subsidies
Commander, Simon - 2012
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
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Globalization and income inequality revisited
Dorner, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018
This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794029
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Property's Effect on Economic Inequality – Property, Piketty, and Capitalism
Forbes, Lucas - 2022
This Article examines property law’s effect on economic inequality, particularly centered on Thomas Piketty’s findings in Capital in the Twenty-First Century. Piketty finds that when the rate of return on capital is greater than economic growth, capital concentrates among the wealthy,...
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Political polarization and the size of government
Lindqvist, Erik; Östling, Robert - 2006
We study the effect of political polarization on public spending using the dispersion of self-reported political preferences as our measure of polarization. Political polarization is strongly associated with smaller government in democratic countries, but there is no relationship between...
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Redistribution in a Globalized World
Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk - 2022
becomes untenable and possibly enhances the need for redistribution …
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Redistribution in a globalized world
Agrawal, David R.; Foremny, Dirk - 2022
becomes untenable and possibly enhances the need for redistribution. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013457362
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Bundesrepublik Erde: Grundrechte und Grundgesetz für die ganze Welt
Dilger, Alexander - 2015
In diesem Beitrag wird das kontrafaktische Szenario betrachtet, dass die ganze Erde einen globalen Bundesstaat nach dem Vorbild der Bundesrepublik Deutschland bilden würde, in dem das Grundgesetz analog für alle Menschen und Länder Geltung hätte. Grundgesetz und Organisation der...
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