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The economics of insurance, its borders with finance and implications for systemic regulation

Thimann, Christian - 2015

international finance is "what is insurance and where does insurance end?" This paper aims to elaborate on the economics of … insurance and its borders with general finance. It argues that the classification challenge by regulators partly stems from … terminological confusion between insurance activities and more general financial activities. Insurance and finance both use the same …

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Public finance in the era of the Covid-19 crisis

Agrawal, David R.; Bütikofer, Aline - 2022

education, in addition to discussing how technological change creates new challenges for the taxation of income and consumption … crises. Finally, we summarize the key issues discussed at the 2021 International Institute of Public Finance Congress and the …

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Religion in economic history : a survey

Becker, Sascha O.; Rubin, Jared; Woessmann, Ludger - 2020

This paper surveys the recent social science literature on religion in economic history, covering both socioeconomic causes and consequences of religion. Following the rapidly growing literature, it focuses on the three main monotheisms - Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and on the period up...

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Can online delivery increase access to education?

Goodman, Joshua S.; Melkers, Julia; Pallais, Amanda - 2017

Though online technology has generated excitement about its potential to increase access to education, most research … online education affects the number of people pursuing formal education. We study the Georgia Institute of Technology …'s Online M.S. in Computer Science, the earliest model to combine the inexpensive nature of online education with a highly …

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Trade liberalization and environmental taxation in federal systems

Fredriksson, Per; Matschke, Xenia - 2014

The literature on trade liberalization and environment has not considered federal structures. This paper shows how the design of environmental policy in a federal system has implications for the effects of trade reform. Trade liberalization leads to a decline in pollution taxes regardless of...

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Horizontal merger under strategic tax policy

Liu, Chih-Chen; Mukherjee, Arijit; Wang, Leonard F. S. - 2014

We show that the presence of a strategic tax policy increases the incentive for a horizontal merger compared to the situation with no tax policy. Thus, we point towards a new factor, viz., strategic tax policy, for increasing the incentive for a horizontal merger that has been ignored in the...

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Leaky bucket in the real world : estimating inequality aversion using survey data

Pirttilä, Jukka (contributor); Uusitalo, Roope (contributor) - 2007

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The role of stigma in the design of welfare programs

Blumḳin, Tomer (contributor); … - 2008

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Trade unions Go global!

Donado Gomez, Alejandro (contributor); … - 2008

Worker movements played a crucial role in making workplaces safer. Workplace safety is costly for firms but increases labour supply. A laissez-faire approach leaving safety of workplaces unknown is suboptimal. Safety standards set by better-informed trade unions are output and welfare...

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Should income inequality be praised? : multiple public goods provision, income distribution and social welfare

Itaya, Jun-ichi; Mizushima, Atsue - 2016

We investigate how income inequality affects social welfare in a model of voluntary contributions to multiple pure public goods. Itaya, de Meza, and Myles (1997) show that the maximization of social welfare precludes income equality in a single pure public good model. In contrast, we show that...

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