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Quality of Government Services and the Civic Duty to Pay Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics, and other Transition Countries

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

A 2002 survey of 1089 Czechs and 501 Slovaks, as well as a more limited survey of Hungary, and Poland, indicates that an individual may evade taxes in part if he believes he is receiving substandard government services. We suggest that an individual’s evaluation of the quality of government...

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Why People Evade Taxes in the Czech and Slovak Republics: A Tale of Twins

Hanousek, Jan; Palda, Filip - EconWPA - 2002

The present paper uses a survey of 1062 Czechs and 524 Slovaks to ask why people evade taxes. We maintain that the Czech and Slovak Republics are “twins” separated at birth and that divergences between these countries since their separation in 1992 can explain divergences in their rates of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005125889

Ghost of 0.7%: Origins and Relevance of the International Aid Target

Clemens, Michael; Moss, Todd - EconWPA - 2005

The international goal for rich countries to devote 0.7% of their national income to development assistance has become a cause célèbre for aid activists and has been accepted in many official quarters as the legitimate target for aid budgets. The origins of the target, however, raise serious...

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Efficiency and Voluntary Implementation in Markets with Repeated Pairwise Bargaining

Jackson, Matthew O.; Palfrey, Thomas R. - EconWPA - 1997

bargain through some extensive game form. We take an implementation approach, characterizing the possible allocation rules …

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The Optimal Design of a Market

Brusco, Sandro; Jackson, Matthew O. - EconWPA - 1997

We study the optimal design of the rules of trade in a two-period market given that agents arrive at different times and may only trade with agents present contemporaneously. First period agents face a fixed cost of trading across periods, and their decisions of whether or not to trade in the...

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Efficient Egalitarian Equivalent Allocations over a Single Good

LiCalzi, Marco; Nicolò, Antonio - EconWPA - 2005

This paper studies efficient and egalitarian allocations over a single heterogeneous and infinitely divisible good. We prove the existence of such allocations using only measure-theoretic arguments. Under the additional assumption of complete information, we identify a sufficient condition on...

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SELF-SELECTION UNDER NON-ORDERED VALUATIONS: TYPE-SPLITTING, ENVY-CYCLES, RATIONING AND EFFICIENCY

Nahata, Babu; Kokovin, Serguei; Zhelobodko, Evgeny - EconWPA - 2003

We analyze self-selection problem when valuations are non-ordered. The corresponding package-pricing solution has specific graph structure. It is helpful in deriving weak su±cient conditions for both partial e±ciency and Pareto-e±ciency. Unlike the ordered valuations case, Pareto e±ciency is...

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Gewährleisten umgesetzte WTO-Streitschlichtungsurteile offene Märkte? Eine Betrachtung am Beispiel des Zeitschriftenfalles

Zimmermann, Thomas A. - EconWPA - 2005

the implementation of rulings. Against this background, it is puzzling that the specific WTO procedure which deals with … allegedly insufficient implementation is used only in about one third of the cases where the need for implementation has arisen …. Yet, a closer look at the where implementation has allegedly occurred can partly resolve this puzzle: The defendant …

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Envy-Freeness and Implementation in Large Economies

Jackson, Matthew O.; Kremer, Ilan - EconWPA - 2003

We show that an asymptotic envy-freeness is a necessary condition for a form of robust approximate implementation in …

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Intra-EU trade and investment in service sectors, and regulation patterns

Kox, Henk. L.M.; Lejour, Arjan; Montizaan, Raymond - EconWPA - 2004

The paper sketches the basic patterns and facts about service trade, foreign direct investment and regulation in the EU. We conclude that the last decade trade in services has increased substantially, in particular in business services. This is also the case for foreign direct investment (in...

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