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Central Bank Boards Around the World : Why Does Membership Size Differ?

Berger, Helge - 2013

This paper analyzes empirically differences in the size of central bank boards across countries. Defining a board as the body that changes monetary instruments to achieve a specified target, we discuss the possible determinants of a board's size. The empirical relevance of these factors is...

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Borders and Distance in Knowledge Spillovers : Dying over Time or Dying with Age? - Evidence from Patent Citations

Li, Yao Amber - 2012

in knowledge spillovers. Drawing on the NBER Patent Citations Database, we examine patent citations data at metropolitan … of cited patent, which implies that new knowledge faces the largest barriers to diffusion. However, over time, border and … sources of overestimated aggregate border effects of knowledge spillovers. While self-citations are only 11% of total …

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The Economics of a Multilateral Investment Agreement

Che, Jiahua - 2012

This paper models a multilateral agreement on investment (MAI) as a coordination device. Multinational enterprises can invest in any number of countries. Without a multilateral investment agreement, expropriation triggers an investment stop by the single MNE. Under a multilateral agreement,...

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Cross-Country Income Differences and Technology Diffusion in a Competitive World

Irmen, Andreas - 2012

This paper develops a new open-economy endogenous growth model where technology diffusion allows for a stable and non-degenerate world income distribution. In accordance with the empirical literature, I find that country characteristics such as the social infrastructure, the degree of openness,...

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Should We Subsidize Longevity?

Leroux, M.‐L. - 2009

This paper studies the design of the optimal non linear taxation in an economy where longevity varies across agents, and depends on three factors: longevity genes, health investment and farsightedness. Provided earnings, farsightedness and genes are correlated, governmental intervention can be...

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Optimal Piecewise Linear Income Taxation

Apps, Patricia F. - 2009

Given its significance in practice, the piecewise linear tax system seems to have received disproportionately little attention in the literature on optimal income taxation. This paper offers a simple and transparent analysis of its main characteristics

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Optimal Provision of Public Goods : A Synthesis

Kreiner, Claus Thustrup - 2009

There currently exist two competing approaches in the literature on the optimal provision of public goods. The standard approach highlights the importance of distortionary taxation and distributional concerns. The new approach neutralizes distributional concerns by adjusting the non-linear...

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Optimal Taxation of Risky Human Capital

Jacobs, Bas - 2009

In a model with ex-ante homogenous households, earnings risk and a general earnings function, we derive the optimal linear labor tax rate and optimal linear education subsidies. The optimal income tax trades off social insurance against incentives to work and to invest in human capital....

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Optimal Redistributive Taxation and Provision of Public Input Goods in an Economy with Outsourcing and Unemployment

Aronsson, Thomas - 2008

This paper concerns optimal redistributive income taxation and provision of a public input good in a two-type model with a minimum wage policy implemented for the low-ability type, where firms may use some of their resources for outsourcing by locating part of the production process abroad. Our...

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Optimal Policy and the Risk Properties of Human Capital Reconsidered

Anderberg, Dan - 2008

This paper considers how optimal education and tax policy depends on the risk properties of human capital. It is demonstrated that a key feature of human capital investments is whether they increase or decrease wage risk. In a benchmark model it is shown that this feature alone determines...

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