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Essays in macroeconomics
Trabandt, Mathias - 2007
short-run confiscation and/or subsidy of capital and labor income is not important for the welfare gains of pre …: should fiscal policy pre-announce tax reforms before their implementation from a welfare point of view? Domeij and Klein … (2005) show that pre-announcement of an optimal tax reform is costly in terms of welfare. We reexamine their claim by taking …
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It's good weather for more government : the effect of weather on fiscal policy
Souza, Gustavo Moreira de - 2022
I show that the weather condition on election day affects future fiscal policy. When it rains during state elections, there is an increase in the relative income of voters, which is followed by an increase in expenditure and debt. The increase in expenditure is directed towards a larger police...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013417291
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It's good weather for more government: The effect of weather on fiscal policy
De Souza, Gustavo - 2022
I show that the weather condition on election day affects future fiscal policy. When it rains during state elections, there is an increase in the relative income of voters, which is followed by an increase in expenditure and debt. The increase in expenditure is directed towards a larger police...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014301981
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Migrations, public goods and taxes
Gabszewicz, Jean J.; Gvetadze, Salome; Zanaj, Skerdilajda - Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA), … - 2011
This paper examines how and why people migrate between two re- gions with asymmetric size. The agglomeration force comes from the scale economies in the provision of local public goods, whereas the disper- sion force comes from congestion in consumption of public goods. Public goods considered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938983
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Migrations, public goods and taxes
GABSZEWICZ, Jean J.; GVETADZE, Salome; ZANAJ, Skerdilajda - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2011
This paper examines how and why people migrate between two regions with asymmetric size. The agglomeration force comes from the scale economies in the provision of local public goods, whereas the dispersion force comes from congestion in consumption of public goods. Public goods considered...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010927680
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A note on the valuation of collective goods: overlooked input market free riding for non-individually incrementable goods
Graves, Philip E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
For at least fifty years economists have argued that vertically-aggregated marginal willingness to pay, when set equal to marginal provision cost, will result in optimal public good provision levels. This methodological approach would be expected to yield an exact analog, in terms of optimal...
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On the private exchange of charitable gifts
Nocetti, Diego - In: Economics Bulletin 34 (2014) 1, pp. 73-83
The private exchange of charitable gifts (e.g. charity gift-cards) has recently become an important source of donations to charities. In this paper we study this new phenomenon using the classical model of private provision of public goods, modified to account for exchange of private gifts....
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Remittances and Governance: Does the Government Free Ride?
Gautam, Durga P. - Department of Economics, College of Business and Economics - 2014
Through what channel and to what extent does the inflow of remittances affect the quality of governance in the recipient countries? Recent studies suggest that a rise in remittances reduces public goods provision. Scholars generally agree that remittances increase consumption expenditure of the...
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Contract clientelism : how infrastructure contracts fund vote-buying
Holland, Alisha C.; Freeman, Will - 2021
Where does the money come from to buy votes? We argue that an important source of funds for vote-buying comes from 'contract clientelism', or the provision of public contracts to private firms in exchange for campaign donations. Using quantitative data on Colombian infrastructure contracts, we...
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Private capital, public goods : forest plantations' investment in local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania
Degnet, Mohammed B.; Van der Werf, Edwin; Ingram, Verina; … - 2017
With the rapid expansion of private forest plantations worldwide, their impacts on local development are under scrutiny by NGOs and researchers alike. This study investigates the impacts of private forest plantations on local infrastructure and social services in rural Tanzania. We take a...
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