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Can the Laffer curve become a policy tool for reducing tax evasion? Stratification of property tax collection by land use
Arbel, Yuval; Fialkoff, Chaim; Kerner, Amichai - In: Journal of Urban Management 8 (2019) 1, pp. 57-74
We construct Laffer curves to evaluate the efficiency of local property tax collection based on a micro-level panel dataset referring to 2013-2016 and obtained from the Jerusalem municipality. Unlike previous literature, we apply a tractable ad hoc methodology, which, compared with the...
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The taxing implementation of densification: The missed opportunity of the German land value tax
Roboger, Cornelia - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 6, pp. 636-647
Densification and more efficient use of land are important planning challenges across Europe intended to aid the pursuit of sustainability goals. Property taxation influences land use. It can discourage or incentivize efficient land use. In the international academic debate, the land value tax...
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Innovatives Bodeneigentum für innovative Bodenpolitik: Vier normative Grundsätze
Davy, Benjamin - In: Raumforschung und Raumordnung / Spatial Research and … 81 (2023) 6, pp. 648-652
Innovative Bodenpolitik gibt nicht dem Druck kurzfristiger Kapitalverwertung nach. Stattdessen stellt innovative … Bodenpolitik einen gerechten Ausgleich zwischen den Interessen der Bodeneigentümer:innen und dem öffentlichen Interesse her. Als … Grundlage aller Bodenpolitik kommt dem Eigentum - vor allem wenn es bereit zur Innovation ist - eine außergewöhnlich wichtige …
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Guanxi Economics: Confucius Meets Lenin, Keynes, and Schumpeter in Contemporary China
Nitsch, Manfred; Diebel, Frank - In: Intervention. European Journal of Economics and … 05 (2008) 1, pp. 77-104
party power structure are identified as the main specific traits of the social formation in contemporary China. In the …
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Do (successful) stock exchanges support or hinder institutions in transition economies?
Hartwell, Christopher A. - In: Cogent Economics & Finance 2 (2014) 1, pp. 2-18
A stock exchange and the presence of functioning equity markets are part and parcel of an advanced market-based financial system. Previous research has also established that equity markets function more efficiently in the presence of supporting institutions such as property rights and rule of...
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Perspektiven der Wirtschaftsbeziehungen der EU zu Russland
Thießen, Ulrich - In: DIW Wochenbericht 74 (2007) 16, pp. 225-230
Die wirtschaftlichen Beziehungen der EU zu Russland werden bisher dominiert von Öl- und Gasimporten der EU einerseits und Investitionsgüterimporten Russlands andererseits. Die unmittelbar bevorstehende russische Mitgliedschaft in der Welthandelsorganisation (WTO) wird den Handel insgesamt...
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New firms entry, labor reallocation, and institutions in transition economies
Bruno, Randolph Luca - In: IZA World of Labor (2015)
In the transition from central planning to a market economy in the 1990s, governments focused on privatizing or closing state enterprises, reforming labor markets, compensating laid-off workers, and fostering job creation through new private firms. After privatization, the focus shifted to...
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Gender and occupational wage gaps in Romania: From planned equality to market inequality?
Andrén, Daniela; Andrén, Thomas - In: IZA Journal of European Labor Studies 4 (2015) 10, pp. 1-27
In Romania, the communist regime promoted an official policy of gender equality for more than 40 years, providing equal access to education and employment and restricting pay differentiation based on gender. After its fall in December 1989, the promotion of equal opportunities and treatment for...
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The Effect of Labor Migration on the Diffusion of Democracy: Evidence from a Former Soviet Republic
Barsbai, Toman; Rapoport, Hillel; Steinmayr, Andreas; … - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 9 (2017) 3, pp. 36-69
Migration contributes to the circulation of goods, knowledge, and ideas. Using community and individual-level data from Moldova, we show that the emigration wave that started in the aftermath of the Russian crisis of 1998 strongly affected electoral outcomes and political preferences in Moldova...
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Hype: The Capitalist Degree of Induced Participation
Di Liberto, Yuri - In: Review of Capital as Power 2 (2022) 2, pp. 1-16
* Winner of the 2022 RECASP Second Essay Prize * Power is usually considered as either a ‘positive’ or ‘negative’ construct, as in the power to force action versus the power to forbid it. This paper explores a hybridized approach to power based on the idea of ‘induced participation’....
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