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Is the Only Good Tax an Old Tax? A Historical Perspective on the GST Debate.

Smith, Julie - Research School of Economics, College of Business and … - 1999

This paper critiques the arguments put by the Howard Government for an unadulterated, flat rate GST policy, by taking …

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Perroni, Carlo; Scharf, Kimberley - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Taxation is only sustainable if the general public complies with it. This observation is uncontroversial with tax … which the power to tax is irretrievably conferred by individuals to government, which can then levy any tax it chooses. In … with taxation, obtaining predictions that in some cases point to a re-interpretation of the theoretical constructions of …

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Economic Linkages Across Space

Overman, Henry G; Rice, Patricia; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

We develop a diagrammatic framework that can be used to study the economic linkages between regions or cities. Hitherto, such linkages have not been the primary focus of either the theoretical or empirical literatures. We use the framework to analyse the impact of shocks that occur in one region...

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Agglomeration and the Adjustment of the Spatial Economy

Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Overman, Henry G - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We consider the literatures on urban systems and New Economic Geography to examine questions concerning agglomeration and how areas respond to shocks to the economic environment. We first propose a diagrammatic framework to compare the two approaches. We then use this framework to study a number...

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An empirical analysis of cellular demand in South Africa

Gasmi, Farid; Ivaldi, Marc; Recuero Virto, Laura - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

We analyze demand for prepaid cellular voice and short message service (SMS) in South Africa by means of a demand-and-supply structural model based on a multinomial specification fitted to a cross-sectional data set on Vodacom customers collected in 2005. We find that consumers are very...

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Reason, Emotion and Information Processing in the Brain

Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Building on evidence from neurobiology and neuroscience, we model the physiological limitations faced by individuals in the process of decision-making that starts with sensory perception and ends in action selection. The brain sets a neuronal threshold, observes whether the neuronal cell firing...

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Penalty Shoot-Outs: Before or After Extra Time?

Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper proposes a rule to determine the winner of a soccer match which is different from the traditional penalty shoot-outs at the end of extra time. We show that games can be more attractive if penalties are shot before extra time and the outcome counts only if the tie is preserved during...

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The Brain as a Hierarchical Organization

Brocas, Isabelle; Carrillo, Juan D - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

We model the brain as a multi-agent organization. Based on recent neuroscience evidence, we assume that different systems of the brain have different time-horizons and different access to information. Introducing asymmetric information as a restriction on optimal choices generates endogenous...

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Redistribution and Education Subsidies are Siamese Twins

Bovenberg, A Lans; Jacobs, Bas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

We develop a model of human capital formation with endogenous labour supply and heterogeneous agents to explore the optimal level of education subsidies along with the optimal progressive schedule of the labour income tax and optimal capital income taxes. Subsidies on education ensure efficiency...

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High Marginal Tax Rates on the Top 1%? Lessons from a Life Cycle Model with Idiosyncratic Income Risk

Kindermann, Fabian; Krueger, Dirk - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

In this paper we argue that very high marginal labor income tax rates are an effective tool for social insurance even when households have preferences with high labor supply elasticity, make dynamic savings decisions, and policies have general equilibrium effects. To make this point we construct...

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