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Tax and Welfare Reforms in the Czech Republic; Structural Implications and Challenges
Dalsgaard, Thomas - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2008
The paper provides an analysis and discussion of key structural implications of the 2007 and 2008 welfare and tax reforms in the Czech Republic. Based on a detailed micro-study of marginal and average effective tax rates for individuals at various points along the earnings curve, it concludes...
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Czech Republic; Selected Issues
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2008
This paper reviews the fiscal reform of the Czech Republic, its key reform measures, and structural implications. The study also focuses on key challenges and demographic pressures facing the Czech economy, and describes the analytical framework of Global Fiscal Model (GFM) with technical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011242637
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The political economy of 'linked' progressive taxation in Africa and Latin America
Mosley, Paul; Abdulai, Abdul-Gafaru - 2016
switched between sectors. We examine, principally by regression methods, the impact of 'linked taxation' in five countries … revenue in all those countries. 'Linked progressive taxation' has evolved over recent years to become more flexible, in … particular through reforms in the sources and types of taxation which are used to finance priority expenditures, and we argue …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653943
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Fiscal Policy, Growth and Convergence in Europe
Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard - 2003
Recent evidence on the impact of fiscal policy – taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits – on long-run growth in OECD countries has adopted the Barro (1990) framework to distinguish between ‘productive' and ‘unproductive' expenditures, and ‘distortionary' and...
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Fiscal policy in a growth framework
Gemmell, Norman - 2001
This paper assesses recent theorising and empirical evidence on the impact of fiscal policy—taxes, public expenditures and budget deficits—on long-run growth. It considers the relevance of recent advances in growth theory for low-income countries and compares the evidence for low-income...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279253
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Tax Cuts Starve the Beast! Evidence from Germany
Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019
The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179808
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On the collective choice among models of social protection: An experimental study
Farina, Francesco; Ottone, Stefania; Ponzano, Ferruccio - In: Games 10 (2019) 4, pp. 1-17
A real-effort experiment is conducted in order to detect preferences for one out of three different models of the Welfare State characterized by different tax-and-transfer schemes. We reproduce a small society in the lab where: Subjects are grouped in three stylized classes (the rich, the middle...
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Tying governments' hands in commodity taxation
Schuknecht, Ludger - 1998 - Manuscript date: May, 1997; Revised: May, 1998
In the 1970s, taxation of "windfall" profits from primary products and intervention in trade and production has tempted …
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Treasury's 2013 long-term fiscal statement : assumptions and projections
Bell, Matthew; Rodway, Paul - In: New Zealand economic papers 48 (2014) 2, pp. 139-152
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Demystifying a 'shining example' : German public finances under the debt break
Eicker-Wolf, Kai; Truger, Achim - 2014
German fiscal policy is nowadays often presented as a shining example due to successful budget consolidation after the Great Recession. However, the idea that the German success is the result of a well-thought-out economic strategy that could therefore serve as a role model for other countries...
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