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A 2019 Social Accounting Matrix for Benin with detailed representation of agriculture and food processing sectors

Kinkpe, A. Thierry; Luckmann, Jonas; Grethe, Harald; … - 2022

This paper presents a detailed 2019 Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) for Benin as a basis for policy analysis with a focus on agriculture, food processing and energy generation from byproducts. It is based on official statistics collected from national and international institutions (national...

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Education and social mobility

Holmlund, Helena; Nybom, Martin - 2023

Education policy holds the promise of breaking the strong ties between family background and socio-economic position by providing publicly accessible education for children of all backgrounds. However, the education system may also perpetuate social inequalities if well-off families are able to...

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The shadow economy in Colombia: size and effects on economic growth

Schneider, Friedrich; Hametner, Bettina - 2007

factors driving the shadow economy are unemployment and taxation. Analyzing the interaction between shadow and official …

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The shadow economy in Colombia: Size and effect on eonomic growth

Schneider, Friedrich; Hametner, Bettina - 2013

. The most important factors driving the shadow economy are indirect taxation and unemployment. Analyzing the interaction …

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Natural Disasters and Demand for Redistribution: Lessons from an Earthquake

Gualtieri, Giovanni; Nicolini, Marcella; Sabatini, Fabio; … - 2018

demands more redistribution. Adverse shocks, like earthquakes, strengthen the belief that random “bad luck” can frustrate the … redistribution. We then present evidence of this behavior by exploiting a natural experiment provided by one of the strongest seismic … with survey data about individual opinions on redistribution collected a few months later. The empirical analysis …

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Age Related Optimal Income Taxation

Blomquist, Sören; Micheletto, Luca - 2003

The focus of the present paper is on the intragenerational effects of nonlinear income taxation in a multiperiod … framework. We investigate whether it is possible to achieve redistribution at smaller efficiency costs by enlarging the message … extension of the Stiglitz-Stern (1982, 1982) discrete adaptation of the Mirrlees (1971) optimal income taxation model. In the …

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Optimal Investment with Default Risk

Hou, Yuanfeng; Jin, Xiangrong - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2003

In this paper, we investigate how investors who face both equity risk andcredit risk would optimally allocate their financial wealth in a dynamic continuous-time setup. We model credit risk through the defaultable zero-coupon bond and solve the dynamics of its price after pricing it. Using...

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Has the time for a European job guarantee policy arrived?

Antonopoulos, Rania - 2023

As country after country in the European Union is called to respond to the current challenge of our time - high inflation and declining real wages - governments must engage in a transformative agenda and go beyond emergency energy vouchers and income support cashtransfers. And if the goal is to...

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The elephant in the other room

Veneziani, Roberto; Skillman, Gilbert L. - 2024

Fabio Petri's Microeconomics for the Critical Mind (2021) is an impressive tour de force in the field of microeconomic theory. It manifests the author's command of cutting edge analytical tools, concepts, and theoretical approaches both in the mainstream and in the heterodox literature. The book...

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What can happiness research tell us about altruism? Evidence from the German Socio-Economic Panel

Schwarze, Johannes; Winkelmann, Rainer - 2005

Much progress has been made in recent years on developing and applying a direct measure of utility using survey questions on subjective well-being. In this paper we explore whether this new type of measurement can be fruitfully applied to the study of interdependent utility in general, and...

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