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The article is concerned with understanding the impact of social preferences and wealth inequality on aggregate economic outcomes. We investigate how different manifestations of other-regarding preferences affect incentive contracts at the microeconomic level and how these in turn translate into...
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and debt-financing further shows that low interest rates facilitate a property carry trade and increase house prices and …
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This paper explores the quantitative consequences of transatlantic trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic … Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. Our key innovation is to develop a … new quantitative spatial trade model and to use an associated technique which is extraordinarily parsimonious and tightly …
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externalities in the presence of a preferential trade agreement (PTA) in a three-country world. In particular, we examine how a PTA … the several forms of PTAs, we focus on free trade areas (FTAs), where each member country chooses its external tariffs … independently. We build a three-country oligopolistic trade model by incorporating the endogenous determination of standards by …
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The traditional concept of a strict minimum of nontaxable income equal for all taxpayers embedded in most current income-tax systems is the result of a paradox of fiscal egalitarianism. The paper shows that substituting the traditional notion of a strict minimum of nontaxable income for a scheme...
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This paper is to analyze the effect of trade openness on regional inequality of South Korea. Trade has been the driving … force of Korea's economic growth since the 1960's and it still expands its trade openness through active participation on … bilateral and multilateral free trade agreements. In regard to this, this study measures the impact of Korea's trade openness on …
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The present paper studies the modelling of inter-regional trade flows in the newly developed general equilibrium model … of European Commission, Rhomolo. In contrast to international trade, usually, trade of goods and services between regions … is not recorded statistically. As a result, no statistical data exists for inter-regional trade, which could be readily …
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The paper studies the income mosaic of Greece at the local community level, from the time the country joined the EMU to time the international crisis reached its shores. It econometrically isolates the impact of past average income and the size of income-filing population, as well as the annual...
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