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Privatization and environmental policy in a mixed oligopoly
Dong, Quan; Bárcena Ruiz, Juan Carlos; Garzón, Maria … - In: Estudios de economía 46 (2019) 2, pp. 173-190
This paper analyzes the interaction between two political economy decisions by a government: whether to privatize a public firm and what environmental policy to choose (an environmental tax or an emission standard). We find that when market competition is weak the government does not privatize...
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Subsidizing non-polluting goods vs. taxing polluting goods for pollution reduction
Main, Robert S. - In: Atlantic economic journal : AEJ 41 (2013) 4, pp. 349-362
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Impact of multilateral trade liberalization on resource revenue
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm; Brun, Jean-François - In: Economies : open access journal 6 (2018) 4/60, pp. 1-19
This paper investigates the impact of multilateral trade liberalization on resource revenue, using an unbalanced panel dataset comprising 57 countries, including both developed and developing countries, over the period 1995–2015. By means of the two-step system Generalized Methods of Moments...
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An integration of Solow’s growth and Dixit-Stiglitz’s monopolistic competition models
Zhang, Wei-Bin - In: Spoudai : journal of economics and business 68 (2018) 4, pp. 3-19
This study proposes an economic growth model with perfectly competitive and monopolistic competitive market structures. Our model is based on two core models in two mainstreams of economic theories. One is the Solow model in neoclassical growth theory. The other one is the Dixit-Stiglitz model...
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Deserving poor and the desirability of a minimum wage
Blumḳin, Tomer; Danziger, Leif - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 7 (2018) 6, pp. 1-17
This paper provides a normative justification for the use of a minimum wage as a redistributive tool in a competitive labor market. We show that a government interested in improving the wellbeing of the deserving poor, while being less concerned with their undeserving counterparts, can use a...
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Statutory, effective, and optimal net tax schedules in Lithuania
Cerniauskas, Nerijus; Jousten, Alain - In: IZA journal of labor policy 11 (2021) 1, pp. 1-33
EUROMOD, whereas optimal net taxes are calculated via Saez (2002) methodology. We find that the three net tax schedules are … less net taxes per Euro than employees - and they effectively pay 29 cents less. …
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Democracy and taxation
Balamatsias, Pavlos - 2018
increase direct and indirect taxes due to increased taxpayers’ compliance, diffusion of taxes between democracies and because … voters in poor democracies are in favour of import taxes. The author tests this hypothesis using data on 74 countries from … waves positively affect democracy, and in turn democracy increases direct and indirect taxes. These results remain the same …
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Self-employment, knowledge and economic growth : an empirical study for Latin American countries
González Sánchez, Víctor M. - In: Contemporary economics 12 (2018) 4, pp. 473-484
positive bond that exists between both of them, which also contributes to economic growth and improvements in welfare, is … example, unemployment, taxes and education (as a proxy of knowledge). …
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The intertemporal incidence of taxes on income distribution in Argentina
Rossignolo, Darío - In: Revista de métodos cuantitativos para la economía y … 34 (2022), pp. 209-236
The aim of this paper is calculating the impact of taxes on inequality of lifetime income distribution in Argentina … regressive, given that the less progressivity of direct taxes which is more than compensated by the less regressivity of indirect … taxes. …
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Analysis of private R&D effects in a CGE model with capital varieties : the case of the Czech Republic
Křístková, Zuzana - In: Finance a úvěr 63 (2013) 3, pp. 262-287
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