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Measuring the Impact of Ride-Hailing Firms on Urban Congestion : The Case of Uber in Europe and United States
Fageda, Xavier - 2019
This paper examines the impact of Uber, the world's largest ride-hailing firm, on congestion. Drawing on data from large urban areas in Europe and the United States for the period 2008 through 2016, it finds a negative impact of Uber on congestion in Europe and a positive impact in the United...
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A welfare based estimate of "real feel GDP" for Europe and the USA
Germain, Jean-Marc - 2020
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A New Measure of Utilization-Adjusted TFP Growth for Europe and the United States
Comin, Diego; Quintana, Javier; Schmitz, Tom; Trigari, … - 2022
We compute new estimates for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth in the United States and in five European countries. Departing from standard methods, we account for positive profits and use firm surveys to proxy for unobserved changes in factor utilization. These novelties have a major...
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Poverty in Europe and the USA : Exchanging Official Measurement Methods
Notten, Geranda; Neubourg, Chris de - 2008
Official poverty methodologies differ from other poverty measurement methods in the sense that the official ones are … USA use an objective method to estimate official poverty (Orshansky indicator). Although related, each approach portrays … different dimensions of poverty. In this study we compare the official poverty methodologies of the USA and EU by applying them …
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Trade Tensions, Global Value Chains, and Spillovers : Insights for Europe
Huidrom, Raju - 2019
economies would be affected by the introduction of tariffs or other trade barriers. This paper estimates the impact of trade …
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Tariff walls, a European crusade
Morrison-Bell, Clive - 1930
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VAT and Agriculture : Lessons from Europe
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2017
Farmers are often exempted from VAT for administrative and political reasons. But this means that the VAT on their inputs cannot be ‘washed out' through the tax deduction/credit mechanism. To compensate farmers for the uncompensated VAT on inputs, the EU has devised a flat-rate scheme that...
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Modernizing the European VAT
Cnossen, Sijbren - 2020
The harmonized European value-added tax (VAT) is anything but a modern consumption tax that taxes all goods and services at a uniform rate. As exemplified by an analysis of the Dutch version, some 60% of the base is exempted, that is, not taxed on output but on inputs. This has serious...
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Measuring competitiveness in Europe : resource allocation, granularity and trade
Altomonte, Carlo (ed.); Békés, Gábor (ed.) - 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506987
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Chronic material deprivation and long-term poverty in Europe in the pre-crisis period
Papadopoulos, Fotis; Tsakloglou, Panos O. - 2016
The paper examines the degree of overlap between people who experience chronic material deprivation and those who face long term income poverty (longitudinal poverty) in 22 EU countries for the period 2005-2008, using the longitudinal information of the EU-SILC. In order to approximate chronic...
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