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Perspectives of Croatia's Africa relations as impending member of the Eurozone

Kohnert, Dirk - 2022

In July 2020, the EU Parliament voted in favour of Croatia’s application to become the newest member of the eurozone from January 1, 2023. Despite the setback caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, it met all the criteria for adopting the euro, high inflation, and the impact of Russia’s invasion...

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Chinese and African migrant entrepreneur's articulation shaped by African agency

Kohnert, Dirk - 2017

Much has been written on the relationship of China and Africa in the past decade. However, the subject of Chinese migrant entrepreneurs in Africa and their articulation with African counterparts was little explored up to the early 2010s. Apparently, this research gap has been closed, as shown by...

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Chance versus choice : eliciting attitudes to fair compensations

Bone, John; Crosetto, Paolo; Hey, John Denis; Pasca, Carmen - 2013

This paper reports an experiment designed to elicit social preferences over income compensation schemes, where income differences between subjects have two independent components: one due to chosen effort and the other due to random chance. These differences can be compensated through social...

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Taxing Capital in a Globalized World : The Effects of Automatic Information Exchange

Boas, Hjalte Fejerskov; Johannesen, Niels; Kreiner, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

In the second half of the 2010s more than 100 countries--including all large offshore financial centers--started to automatically exchange bank information with foreign tax authorities. This informational big-bang marks a break with the situation of offshore bank secrecy that prevailed before....

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Behind the Support for Redistributive Politics: Social Preferences or Beliefs?

Brañas-Garza, Pablo; Cabrales, Antonio; Espinosa, … - 2024

In this paper we explore how individual social preferences correlate with political support for redistribution. We ran an incentivized experiment with a large representative sample of the Spanish population. Our participants took six decisions that elicited their social preferences. Their...

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Tax financing options for new social protection instruments : the equity implications of taxing more to expand the South African social security system

Goldman, Maya; Hlela, Ntuthuko - 2024

In this paper, we use a static fiscal incidence analysis model to evaluate the poverty and inequality impacts of using fiscal policy to finance expanded social spending in South Africa. We assess three methods to enhance the social protection system's equity objectives: increasing the size...

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Generosity and Wealth : Experimental Evidence from Bogotá Stratification

Blanco, Mariana - 2019

This paper combines laboratory experiments with a unique feature of the city of Bogotá to uncover the relationship between generosity and wealth. Bogotá is divided by law into six socio-economic strata which are close proxies of household wealth and income. We recruit subjects from different...

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The impact of rural human capital on household energy consumption structure: Evidence from Shaanxi Province in China

Li, Xiuqing; Mao, Hui; Fang, Lan - In: Sustainable Futures 8 (2024), pp. 1-10

The structure of rural household energy consumption is crucial for rural residents' living standards and quality of life, constituting an integral component of energy transition and promoting Chinese-style modernization. Meanwhile, rural human capital is a prerequisite for agricultural and rural...

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Monetary policy and inequality : an heterogenous agents' approach

Boitani, Andrea; Di Domenico, Lorenzo; Ricchiuti, Giorgio - 2024

the heterogeneity characterizing income sources across the population, the composition of households wealth and portfolio … capital gains and losses (CGL) on long-term bonds are positively correlated with the degree of heterogeneity in the portfolio … preferences of households. In the long-run, such effect vanishes. The short-run effect is null in the case of zero heterogeneity …

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Labor income share consequences of global financial crisis : evidence from Turkey

Tansever, Sinem Sefil - In: International journal of business and economic sciences … 10 (2017) 2, pp. 73-84

Purpose: The aim of this study is to examine the effects of the 2008 financial crisis on the labor share in Turkey, by conducting a comparative analysis of various labor share measures using both micro survey and aggregate data. Design/Methodology/Approach: By adopting aggregate data- based...

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