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Driving Forces in Archetypical Land-Use Changes in a Mountainous Watershed in East Asia
Kim, Ilkwon; Le, Quang Bao; Park, Soo Jin; Tenhunen, John; … - In: Land 3 (2014) 3, pp. 957-980
, accessibility, spatial zoning policies and neighboring land use. Before the inferential statistic analyses, we identified the … related to characteristics of mountainous areas, neighborhood land use, and spatial zoning policies, of land use changes …. Since the statistical models robustly capture the mutual effects of biophysical heterogeneity, neighborhood characteristics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011029697
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Should we subsidize longevity?
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - 2009
This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264609
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Negative marginal tax rates and heterogeneity
Choné, Philippe; Laroque, Guy - 2009
Heterogeneity is likely to be an important determinant of the shape of optimal tax schemes. This article addresses the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010275730
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Monetary policy and redistribution: What can or cannot be neutralized with Mirrleesian taxes
Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - 2012
that the Friedman rule is not in general optimal. The results are due to the existence of another source of heterogeneity … differences in earning ability were the only source of heterogeneity, the fiscal authority would be able to neutralize the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280805
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Monetary policy and redistribution: What can or cannot be neutralized with Mirrleesian taxes
Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - Nationalekonomiska Institutionen, Uppsala Universitet - 2012
dierences in earning ability were the only source of heterogeneity, the scal au- thority would be able to neutralize the eects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009651892
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Stabilization versus insurance: welfare effects of procyclical taxation under incomplete markets
Costain, James S.; Reiter, Michael - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2004
We construct and calibrate a general equilibrium business cycle model with unemployment and precautionary saving. We compute the cost of business cycles and locate the optimum in a set of simple cyclical fiscal policies. Our economy exhibits productivity shocks, giving firms an incentive to hire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010547417
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Monetary Policy and Redistribution: What can or cannot be Neutralized with Mirrleesian Taxes
Gahvari, Firouz; Micheletto, Luca - CESifo - 2012
that the Friedman rule is not in general optimal. The results are due to the existence of another source of heterogeneity … differences in earning ability were the only source of heterogeneity, the fiscal authority would be able to neutralize the effects …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009645639
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Stabilization versus insurance: Welfare effects of procyclical taxation under incomplete markets
Costain, James S.; Reiter, Michael - Department of Economics and Business, Universitat … - 2004
We construct and calibrate a general equilibrium business cycle model with unemployment and precautionary saving. We compute the cost of business cycles and locate the optimum in a set of simple cyclical fiscal policies. Our economy exhibits productivity shocks, giving firms an incentive to hire...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005707978
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Should we Subsidize Longevity?
Leroux, Marie-Louise; Pestieau, Pierre; Ponthiere, Grégory - CESifo - 2009
This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005000380
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Should we subsidize longevity?
LEROUX, Marie-Louise; PESTIEAU, Pierre; PONTHIÈRE, Grégory - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008
This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005042809