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Fair and efficient taxation under partial control : theory and evidence

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2011

characteristics in 26 European countries (using EU-SILC data) and the US (using CPS data) and find a robust tendency in all countries …

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Disposal of petroleum installations : major policy issues

Osmundsen, Petter; Tveterås, Ragnar - 2000

Following the Brent Spar controversy, the OSPAR countries reached a unanimous agreement in 1998 for the future rules for disposal of petroleum installations. The vast majority of existing offshore installations will be re-used or returned to shore for recycling or disposal. For installations...

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Efficiency, fairness, and social cohesion in Europe and the United States : incomes, hours of work, and equality with an afterhought on Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2016

accession of more small states to the EU. This will further advance the EU's economic and social position in the world. …

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Iceland's natural experiment in education reform

Tinna Laufey Ásgeirsdóttir; Gísli Gylfason; Gylfi Zoega - 2022

We use a change in Iceland’s education system as a natural experiment to measure the effect of years spent in upper … secondary school on subsequent first year outcomes at university. The duration of Iceland´s upper-secondary education was …

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Iceland : how could this happen?

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2014

This paper reviews economic developments in Iceland following its financial collapse in 2008, focusing on causes and … developments elsewhere on the periphery of Europe, in Greece, Ireland, and Portugal. In some ways, however, Iceland resembles Italy …

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Constitution on ice

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2014

This paper reports recent events in Iceland where the political agents of oligarchs didn't even bother to try to … simply find ways to nullify the outcome ex post. The paper reviews and explains the making of Iceland's crowd …

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From collapse to constitution : the case of Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2012

article aims to show why Iceland, after its financial collapse in 2008, is now at last on the road to adopting a new …

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Social capital and crises with an application to Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2015

until 2008 with the experience of Sweden and Iceland. The working hypothesis is that social capital decay can be a precursor … as well as consequence of slow economic growth and of financial crises. Iceland is a case in point. An increasingly …

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Digital tools and the derailment of Iceland's new constitution

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Meuwese, Anne - 2016

This paper maps the use of digital tools in the Icelandic constitutional revision process of 2011 and discusses its aftermath in subsequent years. Although causal links between the digital elements of the process and the content and fate of the constitutional bill are impossible to establish, an...

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Chain of legitimacy : constitution making in Iceland

Thorvaldur Gylfason - 2016

To understand Iceland's political situation, it is necessary to consider the historical background to the post …

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