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A microeconometric model for analysing efficiency and distributional effects of tax reforms: a review of results for Italy and Norwayƒx

Aaberge, Rolf; Colombino, Ugo - EconWPA - 2005

illustrate a simulation of the behavioural and welfare effects of some tax reform proposals. In Section 4 we report on an … exercise where we look for the optimal tax system. In Section 5 we report on an on-going project aimed at integrating the …

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The Institutions of Federalism: Toward an Analytical Framework

Wildasin, David E. - EconWPA - 2004

Mature federations have relatively transparent delineations of authority among levels of government; subnational governments enjoy considerable autonomy in their expenditure, revenue, and debt policies. In other countries, problems of soft budget constraints, bailouts, and fiscal and financial...

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Exchange Rate Floating and Inflation Targeting Implementing - Lessons from a succesful transition - The Brazilian Case

Deheza, Juan Carlos Soldano - EconWPA - 2003

El objetivo de este paper es realizar una descripción del caso brasileño, en lo que hace a la salida de un sistema en el cual el ancla nominal de la economía era un tipo de cambio semi-fijo, hacia un régimen de flotación “cuasi” limpia de la moneda, en el que el ancla de la economía...

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Administrative data based statistics: the case of non-pension cash benefits (NPCB)

Consolini, Paolo - EconWPA - 2004

example, we analyse the exact matching between DM10 database and 770-tax register. Technical aspects are not taken into …

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EXISTENCE OF NASH EQUILIBRIUM IN A SPATIAL MODEL OF n-PARTY COMPETITION

Schofield, Norman; Parks, Robert P. - EconWPA - 1993

In the model presented here, $n$ parties choose policy positions in a space $Z$ of dimension at least two. Each party has true preferences on $Z$ that are unknown to other agents. In the first version of the model considered the party declarations determine the lottery outcome of coalition...

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Loss Aversion, Presidential Responsibility, and Midterm Congressional Elections

Patty, John W. - EconWPA - 2005

I explore a behavioral model of political participation, first introduced by Quattrone and Tversky [1988], based on the primitives of prospect theory, as defined by Kahneman and Tversky [1979]. The model offers an alternative explanation for why the President’s party tends to lose seats in...

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Lobbying, Information Transmission, and Unequal Representation

Lagerlof, Johan; Frisell, Lars - EconWPA - 2004

We study the effects of unequal representation in the interest-group system on the degree of information transmission between a lobbyist and a policymaker. Employing a dynamic cheap-talk model in which the lobbyist cares instrumentally about his reputation for truthtelling, we show that the...

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EFFICIENCY IN TAX SYSTEM: A STUDY OF TAX RESPONSIVENESS IN NORTH- EASTERN STATES

Mishra, Dr. B.; Nayak, Dr. Purusottam - EconWPA - 2005

indicate the responsiveness of the tax structure to changes in state’s income over time. Thus the temporal analysis of tax … throw light on the performance of a tax system in respect of two objectives: (i) siphoning off into the state exchequer the … tax rates do not take in to account the taxable capacity, the tax ratio and the tax efforts measures generally fail to …

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Basic Income confronted with some popular ideas of justice

Groot, Loek - EconWPA - 2003

substantial basic income (BI) would engender a major shift in social and economic policy. Even if the BI proposal proves to be …

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The Productivity Commission's gambling inquiry: 3 years on

Banks, Gary - EconWPA - 2003

In a presentation in November 2002 to the Annual Conference of the National Association for Gambling Studies in Melbourne, Productivity Commission Chairman Gary Banks provided an update on key developments in Australia’s gambling industries, three years after publication of the Commission’s...

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