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Unemployment benefits as redistribution scheme for trade gains: A positive analysis

de Pinto, Marco - 2012

Trade liberalization is no Pareto-improvement - there are winners (high-skilled) and losers (low-skilled). To compensate the losers the government is assumed to introduce unemployment benefits (UB). These benefits are financed by either a wage tax, a payroll tax, or a profit tax. Using a...

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Union wage setting and international trade

Egger, Hartmut; Etzel, Daniel - 2012

This paper sets up a general oligopolistic equilibrium model with two countries that differ in the centralization of union wage setting. Being interested in the consequences of openness, we show that, in the short-run, trade increases welfare and employment in both locations, and it raises...

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The redistribution of trade gains and the equity-efficiency trade-off

de Pinto, Marco - 2012

The contribution of this paper is to derive an optimal redistribution scheme for trade gains in the case of a government's objective function that explicitly accounts for the equity-efficiency trade-off. The government pays unemployment benefits (UB) either financed by a wage tax, a payroll tax...

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Relative consumption concerns or non-monotonic preferences?

Hillesheim, Inga; Mechtel, Mario - 2012

We conduct a classroom survey to investigate the willingness to sacrifice consumption in absolute terms in order to ascend above others in terms of consumption levels. In contrast to other studies using survey methodologies, participants are divided into a treatment and a control group. This...

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Failure of ad valorem and specific tax equivalence under uncertainty

Goerke, Laszlo; Herzberg, Frederik; Upmann, Thorsten - 2012

Applying a framework of perfect competition under uncertainty, we contribute to the discussion of whether or not ad … valorem taxes and specific taxes are equivalent. While this equivalence holds without price uncertainty, we show that ad … valorem taxes and specific taxes are almost never equivalent in the presence of uncertainty if we demand equivalence to hold …

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Relative consumption and tax evasion

Goerke, Laszlo - 2013

Relative consumption effects or status concerns that feature jealousy (in the sense of Dupor and Liu, AER 2003) boost consumption expenditure. If consumption is financed by labour income, such status considerations increase labour supply and, hence, the tax base. A higher taxable income, in...

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Poverty and welfare measurement on the basis of prospect theory

Jäntti, Markus; Kanbur, Ravi; Nyyssölä, Milla; … - 2012

-dependence, loss aversion and diminishing sensitivity - aspects emphasized in prospect theory - to social welfare measurement. We …

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Stability of coalitional equilibria within repeated tax competition

Brangewitz, Sonja; Brockhoff, Sarah - 2012

This paper analyzes the stability of capital tax harmonization agreements in a stylized model where countries have formed coalitions which set a common tax rate in order to avoid the inefficient fully non-cooperative Nash equilibrium. In particular, for a given coalition structure we study to...

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Refined best reply correspondence and dynamics

Balkenborg, Dieter; Hofbauer, Josef; Kuzmics, Christoph - 2011

We call a correspondence, defined on the set of mixed strategy profiles, a generalized best reply correspondence if it has (1) a product structure, is (2) upper semi-continuous, (3) always includes a best reply to any mixed strategy profile, and is (4) convex- and closed-valued. For each...

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Evolution of social networks

Hellmann, Tim; Staudigl, Mathias - 2012

Modeling the evolution of networks is central to our understanding of modern large communication systems, such as theWorld-Wide-Web, as well as economic and social networks. The research on social and economic networks is truly interdisciplinary and the number of modeling strategies and concepts...

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