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Politika Fiskale- Objektivat,instrumentet dhe efektet

Govori, Florije - EconWPA - 2005

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Dietrich, Franz - EconWPA - 2005

Within social choice theory, the new field of judgment aggregation aims to merge many individual sets of judgments on logically interconnected propositions into a single collective set of judgments on these propositions. Commonly, judgment aggregation is studied using standard propositional...

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Social Spending in IMF-supported Programs

Martin, Ricardo; Segura-Ubiergo, Alex - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes the impact of IMF-supported programs on health and education spending in a large time-series cross-section sample of countries. Using an ARIMA model to model time dynamics and instrumental variables to correct for the well-known endogeneity of IMF-supported programs, the...

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Globalization, Domestic Politics and Social Spending in Latin

Kaufman, Robert R.; Segura-Ubiergo, Alex - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes the impact of globalization on social spending in Latin America. It shows that trade integration has a consistently negative effect on social security expenditures, and that this effect is compounded by higher integration into capital markets. The importance of political...

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Benefit-Cost Analysis and Distortionary Taxes: A Public Choice Approach

Bergstrom, Ted - EconWPA - 1994

This paper seeks useful conditions relating individual preferences to willingness to support specific governmental tax …-expenditure proposals. This discussion follows Wicksell in considering only tax-expenditure proposals that specifically tie expenditures to …

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Taxation for the 21st Century: The Automated Payment Transaction (APT) Tax

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2001

includes exchanges of titles to property and is therefore more highly skewed than the conventional income or consumption tax …This paper examines the desirability and feasibility of replacing the present system of personal and corporate income … Automated Payment Transaction (APT) tax. In its simplest form, the APT tax consists of a flat tax levied on all transactions …

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Campaign Finance: An Introduction to the Field

Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

This is a review of the economics and politics of campaign finance regulation and of the econometrics of the effect of campaign spending on election outcomes.

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Disarming Fears of Diversity: Ethnic Heterogeneity and State Militarization, 1988–2002

Soysa, Indra de; Neumayer, Eric - EconWPA - 2005

This study addresses state militarization under conditions of ethnic and other diversity. Recent scholarship in economics finds that high diversity leads to lower provision of public goods. At the same time, conflict studies find that highly diverse societies face a lower risk of civil war...

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Price Competition and Product Differentiation when Goods have Network Effects

CONRAD, Klaus - EconWPA - 2005

The objective of our approach is to develop a model which captures horizontal product differentiation under environmental awareness, product innovation under network effects, and price competition whereby environmentally friendly products are costlier to produce. As an example, we refer to...

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The Effect of Taxes and Bans on Passive Smoking

Adda, Jérôme; Cornaglia, Francesca - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 2006

This paper evaluates the effect of excise taxes and bans on smoking in public places on the exposure to tobacco smoke of non-smokers. We use a novel way of quantifying passive smoking: we use data on cotinine concentration- a metabolite of nicotine- measured in a large population of non-smokers...

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