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Optimal representative taxation, information and tax reform

Winer, Stanley L.; Hettich, Walter - 1993

This paper moves toward the formulation of a normative theory of taxation that incorporates collective choice as an … essential element. Such a theory has many interesting parallels to optimal taxation, including large information requirements …In diesem Papier wird versucht, eine normative Theorie der Besteuerung auf der Theorie der kollektiven Entscheidung …

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Raising rivals' costs with environmental regulation: An intertemporal lobbying approach

Körber, Achim - 1995

This paper addresses the question why a lot of firms demand stricter environmental regulation. With non-identical producers within the same industry, lobbying for tighter environmental rules turns out to be an important strategy of raising rivals' costs. Furthermore, the paper explains when the...

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Nichtparametrische Quantilsprognose und ihre Anwendung auf Aktienrenditen

Abberger, Klaus - 1995

In diesem Aufsatz wird die nichtparametrische Autoregression auf die Prognose von Quantilen angewendet. Verfahren der Kernregression werden benutzt, um zu autoregressiven Quantiisschätzern zu gelangen. Da die üblichen Maße zur Beurteilung der Prognose, wie etwa der mittlere quadratische...

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Some notes on the computational complexity of optimal aggregation

Winker, Peter - 1992

basic concepts of mathematical complexity theory; (2) show that the problem of Optimal Aggregation is of high computational …

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Employment risk and optimal trade policies

Choi, Eun Kwan; Chen, Jiong - 1997

This paper considers trade policies and welfare in a Harris-Todaro model with risk averse workers. Workers are assumed to have identical and homothetic preferences, but their incomes differ, depending on whether and where they are employed. When workers are equally weighted, maximizing social...

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Identification of multivariate AR-models by threshold accepting

Winker, Peter - 1994

results. In many cases it is based on some a priori knowledge from economic theory and a rather heuristic procedure for …

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Testing the Ricardian trade theory

Kukuk, Martin - 1990

The simple Ricardian model explains the comparative cost advantage by a relative productivity advantage of the single factor of production. This model is tested in this paper using microdata of the german business survey. In a first approach labour is being considered to be the only factor of...

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Tax reform, welfare and intergenerational redistribution

Hougaard Jensen, Svend Erik; Nielsen, Søren Bo; Haagen … - 1993

This paper analyses the effects of cuts in the marginal tax rates on income from labour and capital on the macroeconomy and on the intergenerational distribution of welfare in a small open economy. For this purpose we set up a computable general equilibrium model incorporating overlapping...

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The illusion of intergenerational preference aggregation: Limits of individualistic population ethics

Kolmar, Martin; Stolte, Klaus - 1996

of current and future individuals do not exist. The extension of social choice theory to intergenerational problems …

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Increasing returns and international trade: A new approach

Kemp, Murray C.; Shimomura, Koji - 1997

We develop a model of international trade with increasing returns to scale by taking into account the possibility of cooperation among agents in an egalitarian economy. It is shown that each country gains from trade in a trading world in which there are arbitrary numbers of...

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