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(Post-)Materialist Attitudes and the Mix of Capital and Labour Taxation

König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2008

Social values shape policy outcomes. We examine the role of postmaterialism, a widely used concept in the social sciences, for the mix of capital and labour taxation chosen by a society. Following political scientist Inglehart, we define the degree of postmaterialism as the relative importance...

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Culture and Tax Structures

König, Tobias; Wagener, Andreas - CESifo - 2012

We argue that societies with a stronger tendency towards postmaterialist life goals tilt the tax structure towards personal income taxes and away from corporate taxation. We provide empirical evidence for this correlation in OECD countries. To address endogeneity issues we then use an...

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The Impact of Council’s Internal Decision-Making Rules on the Future EU

Widgrén, Mika - CESifo - 2008

evaluated. Internal impact affects the distribution of power among the member states and external impact affects power relations …

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The Power of Religious Organizations in Human Decision Processes: Analyzing Voting Behavior

Torgler, Benno; Stadelmann, David; Portmann, Marco - CESifo - 2013

directly measure religious organizations’ power to shape human decision making. We employ an objective measure of voters …

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Exit and Power in General Equilibrium

Gersbach, Hans; Haller, Hans - CESifo - 2008

We integrate individual power in groups into general equilibrium models. The relationship between group formation …, resource allocation, and the power of specific individuals or particular sociological groups is investigated. We introduce, via … an illustrative example, three appealing concepts of power and show that there is no monotonic relationship between these …

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Outcome, Process & Power in Direct Democracy

Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel; Stutzer, Alois - CESifo - 1999

of power. In the second part, we demonstrate that reported subjective well-being of the population is much higher in …

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Guilds, Efficiency, and Social Capital: Evidence from German Proto-Industry

Ogilvie, Sheilagh - CESifo - 2002

This paper analyzes an early modern German economy to test alternative theories about guilds. It finds little evidence to support recent hypotheses arguing that guilds corrected market failures relating to product quality, training, and innovation. But it finds that guilds were social networks...

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Iceland: How Could This Happen?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - CESifo - 2014

This paper reviews economic developments in Iceland following its financial collapse in 2008, focusing on causes and consequences of the crash. The review is presented in the context of the Nordic region, with broad comparisons also with developments elsewhere on the periphery of Europe, in...

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Do Natural Disasters Enhance Societal Trust?

Toya, Hideki; Skidmore, Mark - CESifo - 2012

In this paper we investigate the long- and short-run relationships between disasters and societal trust. A growing body research suggests that factors such as income inequality, ethnic fractionalization, and religious heritage are important determinants of social capital in general, and trust in...

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The Compensating Income Variation of Social Capital

Groot, Wim; Brink, Henriette Maassen van den; Praag, … - CESifo - 2007

There is a small but growing literature on the determinants of social capital. Most of these studies use a measure of trust to define social capital empirically. In this paper we use three different measures of social capital: the size of the individual’s social network, the extent of their...

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