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Menu Costs and Inflation Asymmetries Some Micro Data Evidence

Karádi, Péter; Reiff, Àdám - 2007

The paper explains the observed asymmetric inflation response to value-added tax (VAT) changes in Hungary by calibrating a standard sectoral menu cost model on a new micro-level CPI data set. The model is able to reproduce important moments of the data, and finds that the asymmetry can be...

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Underreported Earnings and Old-Age Pension: An Elementary Model

Simonovits, András - 2008

This paper analyzes the interconnections of underreported earnings, savings and oldage pension with the help of a most simple, elementary model. The workers can be divided into three groups: 1) well-paid who report their full earnings, 2) well-paid who report only the minimum earnings (evaders)...

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Strategic power indices: Quarrelling in coalitions

Kóczy, László Á. - 2008

While they use the language of game theory known measures of a priory voting power are hardly more than statistical …

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Riskiness, Risk Aversion, and Risk Sharing: Cooperation in a Dynamic Insurance Game

Laczó, Sarolta - 2008

This paper examines how cooperation in an insurance game depends on risk preferences and the riskiness of income. It considers a dynamic game where commitment is limited, and characterizes the level of cooperation as measured by the reciprocal of the discount factor above which perfect risk...

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When and How to Subsidize Tax-Favored Retirement Accounts?

Simonovits, András - 2009

When and how to subsidize tax-favored pension accounts? To defend myopic workers against themselves, the government introduces a mandatory system but to help savers, it adds taxfavored retirement accounts. If the mandatory system is progressive, then a proportional voluntary system can...

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The metamorphosis of the communist party: from entity to system and from system towards an entity

Csanádi, Mária - 2009

A complex analytical framework, the Interactive Party state model (IPS), is offered for revealing the structural and dynamic background of opposite processes: first, the development of the communist party as a political entity into a politically monopolized regime and then to a social system;...

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A Simple Model of Tax-Favored Retirement Accounts

Simonovits, András - 2009

To defend myopic workers against themselves, the government introduces a mandatory system but to help savers, it adds tax-favored retirement accounts. In a very simple model, where benefits are proportional to contributions, we compare three extreme systems: (i) the pure mandatory system, (ii)...

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Inflation, Investment and Growth: a Money and Banking Approach

Gillman, Max; Kejak, Michal - 2009

Output growth, investment and the real interest rate in long run evidence tend to be negatively affected by inflation. Theoretically, inflation acts as a human capital tax that decreases output growth and the real interest rate, but increases the investment rate, opposite of evidence. The paper...

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Pension Reforms in an Aging Society: A Fully Displayed Cohort Model

Simonovits, András - 2009

We fully display a cohort model of an economy with an aging population, taking into account varying family size, habit formation, inheritance and credit constraints. Filling the model with numbers, we are able to compare different pension reforms: 1. the base run, 2. the reduced accrual rates,...

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Jánossy elmélete az új növekedéselmélet tükrében

Tarján, Tamás - 2010

If Janossy's theory should concisely be drafted, one might say that he had been researching the "real carrier of … economic development" in a very original way and having formulated his theory in a specific language. He managed to identify … growth theory that have appeared in the nineties. The "real carrier of economic development" matches to the "human capital …

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