This paper examines the differences between state owned enterprises and their private-sector counterparts in terms of the way they are affected by the tax systems. The relationship between state-owned enterprise finance and the impact of a tax system on these firms is also studied. A number of...

One of the alleged costs of inflation is said to be the loss of competitiveness in international markets if the rate of change of proces is higher in the domestic country than in the rest of the world. While inflation is measured by changes in the consumer price index, wholesale price index, or...

We study the optimal redistributive tax structure when the population can be disaggregated into tagged groups. We begin with the case in which the tag has no normative significance, but simply separates the population into identifiable groups with different distributions of ability-types. Under...

Simple techniques for the graphical display of simulation evidence concerning the size and power of hypothesis tests are developed and illustrated. Three types of figures - called P value plots, P value discrepancy plots, and size-power curves - are discussed. Some Monte Carlo experiments on the...

Each extractor has a distinct quadratic extraction cost and faces a linear industry demand schedule. We observe that the open loop and closed loop solutions are the same if initial stocks are such that each competitor is extracting in every period in which her competitors are extracting.

This paper studies multi-stage processes of non-cooperative voluntary provision of public goods. In the first stage, one or more players announce contributions that may be conditional on the subsequent contributions of others. In later stages, players choose their own contributions and fulfill...

In this paper we provide new and convincing evidence on the presence and magnitude of feedback effects associated with 'make work pay' policies currently under consideration in the US, Canada, the UK and other developed countries. We build a general equilibrium model of the labor market and use...

It is remarkably easy to test for structural change, of the type that the classic F or "Chow" test is designed to detect, in a manner that is robust to heteroskedasticity of possibly unknown form. This paper first discusses how to test for structural change in nonlinear regression models by...