Intro -- Series Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction and Summary -- I Taxation and Labor Markets: The Broader Perspective -- 1 Tax Policy and Labor Market Performance -- 2 Work and Taxes -- 3 Do Social Policies Harm Employment and Growth? Second-best Effects of Taxes and Benets on...

Intro -- Contents -- Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I Monetary and Exchange Rate Policy in Theory -- 1 Pricing-to-Market, the Interest-Rate Rule, and the Exchange Rate -- 2 Optimal Exchange RateRegimes: Turning Mundell-Fleming's Dictum on Its Head -- 3 Monetary Policy Rules,...

Recent academic research findings on topics relating to taxation and social insurance policy, including the implicit tax imposed by Medicaid on private long-term care insurance benefits, an alternative system of unemployment insurance, and federal energy tax policy.

Taxing meat optimally is a first-best policy outcome to internalize environmental harms. However, meat taxes often lack public and governmental support. Recent research indicates that support for meat taxes can be improved by combining behavioral nudges with fiscal measures. In this study, we...

The World Bank's Nepal Fiscal Federalism Update (NFFU) aims to report annually on the progress of fiscal federalism in Nepal and identify implementation gaps. This second update reviews the progress on fiscal federalism since the publication of the first report and provides an update on economic...