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An acquired taste for public goodies
Wirtz, Ronald A. - In: Fedgazette (2004) Jan, pp. 1-5
State and local government spending has steadily increased across the district, and states have unique spending priorities
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005411160
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Special-Interest Lobbying and Endogenous Commodity Taxation
Dixit, Avinash - In: Eastern Economic Journal 22 (1996) 4, pp. 375-388
optimal commodity taxation. A model of lobbying for taxes and subsidies on production and consumption in an open economy is … markedly from the model of lobbying for protection: the equilibrium policy involves mostly production subsidies, not import …
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Distributional Effects of Oil Price Changeson Household Expenditures; Evidence From Mali
Kpodar, Kangni - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
disproportionately from oil price subsidies. This suggests that a petroleum price subsidy is an ineffective mechanism for protecting the …
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Issues in Domestic Petroleum Pricing in Oil-Producing Countries
Gupta, Sanjeev; Clements, Benedict J.; Fletcher, Kevin; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2002
implicit subsidies that equaled 3.0 percent of GDP, on average, in 1999. Moreover, the paper argues, these petroleum subsidies …-and also procyclical, complicating macroeconomic management. Nonetheless, the elimination of petroleum subsidies is often …
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France; Lessons From Past Fiscal Consolidation Plans
Martin, Edouard; Yakadina, Irina; Tytell, Irina - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
This paper analyzes past fiscal consolidation plans and their outcomes in France. It covers the early attempts at fiscal consolidation in the 1970s and the 1980s (Plan Barre and Virage de la Rigueur), the first episode of medium-term fiscal consolidation in 1994-97 ahead of joining the European...
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The Economics of Risky Health Behaviors
Cawley, John; Ruhm, Christopher J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
policies and strategies with the potential to modify risky health behaviors, such as taxes or subsidies, cash incentives …
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Do Cultural Tax Districts Buttress Revenue Growth for Budding Arts Organizations?
Schmitz, Lauren - Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis … - 2012
What role should the government play in financing the arts in America? A wealth of research has been dedicated to whether lump sum government transfers to nonprofit organizations “crowd-out” private giving. However, little attention has been paid to the incidence of voter-approved cultural...
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New York City and State Tax Expenditures for Defined Contribution Plans
Schmitz, Lauren; Ghilarducci, Teresa - Bernard Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis … - 2012
these tax subsidies from a tax deduction to a flat tax credit would provide workers with annual accumulations (indexed for …
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The oil position in the Tunisian economy: Adaptation of computable general equilibrium model
Necibi, Thameur - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
. The simulations on the crude oil price and on the subsidies granted to oil products have redrew new structures of the …
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The Costs of VAT: A Review of the Literature
Barbone, Luca; Bird, Richard; Vázquez Caro, Jaime - CASE-Center for Social and Economic Research - 2012
costs of taxation, with special reference to VAT (including evasion and fraud) in the European Union. …
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