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This paper uses Brazilian quarterly data, from the period January/2002 to June/2015, to estimate the impact of taxes over gross domestic product (GDP) per capita. The econometric results show a negative and statistically significant impact of the overall tax burden over per capita GDP. In...
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described by the economic theory. We determine a significant influence of the labeling and the earmarking of taxes. We can show …
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Declining inflation rates might have negative consequences for tax revenues. Phenomena like the inflationary bracket creep in a progressive income tax system do not work any longer. With this background the paper analyzes the extent of fiscal drag for OECD countries since 1965. Some...
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We introduce a dynamic panel threshold model to shed new light on the impact of inflation on long-term economic growth. The empirical analysis is based on a large panel-data set including 124 countries during the period from 1950 to 2004. For industrialized countries, our results confirm the...
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This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...
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As part of its action plan against base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS), the OECD (2015) has proposed six indicators to measure profit shifting activity. These indicators add to past and ongoing efforts in academic tax research to empirically identify the scale and tax sensitivity of...
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comes at the price of making them vulnerable to a number of confounding factors and economic effects that go beyond profit …
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Concurrent taxation is a feature of many federal systems. As a consequence of this fact, the tax policy of one level of government affects the tax base of the other. This paper carries out a theoretical analysis of the interdependent tax-setting decisions of federal and regional governments,...
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integrated markets, however, theory suggests that the impact of inflation on price dispersion disappears. Employing price data of … theory. -- Inflation ; Relative price variability ; Monetary search models ; European market integration …Recent monetary search models emphasize that the real effects of inflation via its impact on price dispersion depend on …
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We empirically identify the effect of inflation on relative price distortions, using a novel identification approach … derived from sticky price theories with time or state-dependent adjustment frictions. Our approach can be directly applied to … micro price data, does not rely on estimating the gap between actual and flexible prices, and only assumes stationarity of …
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