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Taxes and Economic Growth in Developing Countries : A Dynamic Panel Approach

NANTOB, N'Yilimon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper looks at the effects of taxes increase on economic growth of 47 developing countries. In developing countries, there is no magic tax strategy to encourage economic growth. Some countries with high tax burdens have high growth rates and some countries with low tax burdens have low...

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CLIMATE POLICY AND CATASTROPHIC CHANGE: Be Prepared and Avert Risk

van der Ploeg, Frederick (Rick); de Zeeuw, Aart - Department of Economics, European University at St. … - 2013

The optimal reaction to a pending climate catastrophe is to accumulate capital to be better prepared for the disaster and levy a carbon tax to reduce the risk of the hazard by curbing global warming. The optimal carbon tax consists of the present value of marginal damages, the non-marginal...

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Climate Tipping and Economic Growth: Precautionary Saving and the Social Cost of Carbon

Zeeuw, Aart J. de; van der Ploeg, Frederick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

The optimal reaction to a pending productivity shock of which the expected arrival time increases with global warming is to accumulate more precautionary capital to smooth consumption and to levy a carbon tax, proportional to the marginal hazard of a catastrophe, to curb the risk of climate...

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Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - Institut for Miljø og Erhvervsøkonomi, Syddansk … - 2010

The optimal mix of growth policies is determined within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and accounts for transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...

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Climate Tipping and Economic Growth: Precautionary Capital and the Price of Carbon

Ploeg, Frederick van der; Zeeuw, Aart de - Oxford Centre for the Analysis of Resource-Rich … - 2013

The optimal reaction to a productivity shock which becomes more imminent with global warming is to price carbon (proportional to the marginal hazard of a catastrophe) to curb the risk of climate change, but also to accumulate precautionary capital to facilitate smoothing of consumption and curb...

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Does Equality Promote Growth?

Fölster, Stefan; Trofimov, Georgi - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996

Several recent articles claim that pre-tax income equality promotes growth. Equality is argued to dampen demand for redistributive economic policies that tax returns to growth-enhancing activities such as investment. These results rest heavily on the assumption that pre-tax income equality is an...

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Taxation and Economic Growth : An Empirical Analysis on Dynamic Panel Data of WAEMU Countries

NANTOB, N'Yilimon - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014

This paper studies the impact of taxation on economic growth of the eight WAEMU countries. Among the critiques … increasing of taxation. The growth rate can be influenced by economic policy choice relative to taxation which has an effect on … taxation can be distortionary and like this negatively influences economic growth while law weight of taxation can generate …

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Explaining Differences in Economic Growth among OECD Countries

Aiginger, Karl; Falk, Martin - In: Empirica 32 (2005) 1, pp. 19-43

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Status Effects and Neganive Utility Growth.

Cooper, B.; Garcia-Penalosa, C. - Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford - 1998

This paper explains the observed stagnation of 'Happiness' measures in the post-war period through a growth model in which agents care about conspicuous consumption.

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Quantifying Optimal Growth Policy

Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008550514