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The Price Does Not Include Additional Taxes, Fees, and Surcharges : A Review of Research on Partitioned Pricing

Greenleaf, Eric - 2015

In the past two decades, pricing research has paid increasing attention to instances where a product's price is divided into a base price and one or more mandatory surcharges, a practice termed partitioned pricing. Recently, partitioned pricing strategies in the marketplace have become more...

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The Problem of Internalization of Social Costs and the Ideas of Ronald Coase

Baffi, Enrico - 2013

This work examines the influence of Coasian thought on the analysis of externalities as used by economists and legal economists. Ronald Coase, a Chicago scholar, advanced a series of critiques of the Pigovian tax system; the theorem that bears his name is merely the best known. In his 1960 work,...

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Taxing Children : The Re-Distributive Role of Child Benefits - Revisited

Blumkin, Tomer - 2010

In this paper, we challenge the conventional wisdom that due to the negative correlation between family size and earning ability, family size can be used as a 'tagging' device, and calls for subsidizing children (via child allowances) to enhance egalitarian objectives. We show that the case for...

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The Fiscal and Welfare Impacts of Reforming Fuel Subsidies in India

Anand, Rahul - 2013

Rising fuel subsidies have contributed to fiscal pressures in India. A key policy concern regarding subsidy reform is … implications of fuel subsidy reform in India. Fuel subsidies are found to be badly targeted, with the richest ten percent of … groups. Better targeting of fuel subsidies would fully protect lower income households while still generating substantial net …

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A Critical Look at the Economic Argument for Taxing Only Labor Income

Sanchirico, Chris William - 2012

According to accepted wisdom, quot;the tax substitution argumentquot; fairly establishes that it is best to tax only labor income, and not also income from savings and investment. In this Article, I show that the tax substitution argument - which is actually a disjointed collection of arguments...

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On the optimal target curbside parking occupancy rate

Arnott, Richard - 2013

For many years, Donald Shoup has been advocating cashing out free and underpriced curbside parking. How should this be implemented in practice, taking into account the stochasticity of curbside parking vacancies? Shoup has proposed setting neighborhood/period of the day-specific meter rates such...

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International tax competition : zero tax rate at the top re-established

Blumḳin, Tomer; Tsadḳah, Efrayim; Shem-Ṭov, Yotam - 2012

In this paper we extend the zero tax at the top result obtained in the closed economy case with bounded skill distributions for the case of unbounded skill distributions in the presence of international labor mobility and tax competition. We show that in the equilibrium for the tax competition...

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On the Provision of Excludable Public Goods - General Taxes or User Prices?

Economides, George; Philippopoulos, Apostolis - 2021

This paper compares some of the most common and debated ways of financing the provision of impure public goods/services in a unified dynamic general equilibrium framework. We study and rank a wide variety of ways ranging from provision without any user charges, to provision with full user...

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Honeybee Economics - Implications for Ecology Policy

Kanniainen, Vesa; Lehtonen, Tuula; Mellin, Ilkka - 2021

For thousands of years, humans have known the value of honeybees in agriculture. Their pollination services are crucial for the mankind, the Global ecosystem and food production. The recently documented decline of the honeybee colonies in the world is alarming and may threaten the whole living...

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Larceny in the product market : a hidden tax?

Jackson, Osborne; Tran, Thu - 2020 - This version: October 2020

This paper compares the distortionary impact of larceny theft across different product markets, characterizing such crime as a “hidden tax” on producers or consumers. We estimate the size of this tax and how it is affected by exogenous changes in larceny rates driven by the enactment of...

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