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The impact of new tax policies in semi-subsistence agriculture in the period 2013-2017
Toma, Camelia; Gavrilescu, Camelia - In: Agrarian economy and rural development : realities and …, (pp. 23-30). 2018
The paper aimed to estimate the effects of the 2013 new fiscal policy, by broadening the taxation basis of agricultural … National Institute for Statistics were used, taking into account the specific taxation methodologies and the current …, but one can notice that tax revenues collected for the State Budget from the taxation of rental income increased almost …
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Winning the oil lottery : the impact of natural resource extraction on growth
Cavalcanti, Tiago; Mata, Daniel da; Toscani, Frederik - 2014 - Version: February 9, 2014
This paper studies the effect of oil discoveries on economic growth in Brazilian municipalities for the period from 1940 to 2000. It uses a unique identification strategy which exploits data on the drilling of approximately 20,000 oil wells in Brazil since oil explorations began in the country....
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Natural disasters, growth and institutions : a tale of two earthquakes
Barone, Guglielmo; Mocetti, Sauro - 2013
We examine the impact of natural disasters on economic growth by applying a synthetic control approach. In contrast to previous literature, we adopt a within-country perspective, which allows us to use richer and more comparable data and to better define the geographic area hit by the disaster....
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Labor productivity growth in EU28 : spatial panel analysis
Olejnik, Alicja; Olejnik, Jakub - 2015
This paper is an attempt to explain variations across EU regions in productivity growth and takes into consideration the important structure of the age-productivity relation of Human Capital. The study is fundamentally based on the theory of Fingleton's model which analyses the spatial process...
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Agglomeration, inequality and economic growth : cross-section and panel data analysis
Castells Quintana, David; Royuela, Vicente - 2012
The effects of inequality on economic growth depend on several factors. On one hand, they depend on the time horizon considered, on the initial level of income and on its initial distribution. But, on the other hand, as growth and inequality are also uneven across space, it also seems relevant...
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Income polarization and stagnation in a stochastic model of growth : when the demand side matters
Gries, Thomas - 2019
This contribution is motivated by two stylized observations, the slowdown in growth, and a simultaneous income polarization in many advanced economies. While mainstream neoclassical and endogenous growth theory cannot sufficiently explain the nexus, we argue that the demand side plays a role. We...
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Economic growth and the balance-of-payments constraint : the case of the Spanish regions, 1988-2008
Bajo Rubio, Oscar; Díaz Roldán, Carmen - 2010
The balance of payments can act as a constraint to the rate of growth of output, on putting a limit to the growth in the level of demand to which supply can adapt. This effect might be even stronger for regional economies, presumably more integrated among them. In this paper, we examine this...
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Distributional effects of surging housing costs under Schwabe's law of rent
Grossmann, Volker; Larin, Benjamin; Löfflad, Hans Torben; … - 2019
The upward sloping trend of rents and house prices has initiated a debate on the consequences of surging housing costs for wealth inequality and welfare. We employ a frictionless two-sectoral macroeconomic model with a housing sector to investigate the dynamics of wealth inequality and the...
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Vertical versus horizontal tax incentives policies in Brazil : assessing the impacts using a computable general equilibrium model
Porsse, Alexandre Alves; Madruga, Felipe Gomes - 2015
Since the 2009 financial crisis, some national governments have adopted anticyclical tax policies for recovering and economic growth. These policies can be different in terms of what type of tax incentive policy (income, labor, value added) is chosen as well if the strategy is vertical,...
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Planning for the future : a land-use and transport interaction model for Switzerland : conference paper at 54th ERSA Congress, 26-29 August 2014
Bodenmann, Balz R.; Sanchez, Breogan; Bode, J.; Zeiler, … - 2014
Spatial and transport planners, authorities, real estate developers, investors, re-locating residents and businesses have different questions related to space and transport. These questions may concern specific land parcels, or cover a much larger area such as a city, a region, or even a whole...
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