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Trust among individuals in society may have various economic and social implications. Though, worldwide data on economic growth rarely consider trust as an ingredient in manipulating economic outcomes. Thus, we include trust instigating from individual, affecting community and state thus,...
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participant of this market gets a tax subsidy since premiums are excluded from taxable income. However, people have different … receive implicit cross-subsidies from low-risk individuals. In this paper we explore several ways to reform the tax subsidy by … calibrate it using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Dataset. We find that even though the complete elimination of the tax …
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participant of this market gets a tax subsidy since premiums are excluded from taxable income. However, people have different … receive implicit cross-subsidies from low-risk individuals. In this paper we explore several ways to reform the tax subsidy by … calibrate it using the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Dataset. We find that even though the complete elimination of the tax …
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The purpose of this paper is to analyze empirically the short- and long-run effects of tax shocks on private … show that the effects of tax shocks on the components of private consumption expenditure differ in the short- and long … expenditure, whereas in the long-run only two taxes - the VAT and the personal income tax - affect it. However, it is important to …
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. Every participant in this market receives a tax subsidy because premiums are excluded from taxable income. However, people … reform the tax subsidy by taking this implicit cross- subsidization into account. Using a general equilibrium heterogeneous … agents model, we find that even though the complete elimination of the tax subsidy leads to the unraveling of the employer …
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. Every participant in this market receives a tax subsidy because premiums are excluded from taxable income. However, people … reform the tax subsidy by taking this implicit cross- subsidization into account. Using a general equilibrium heterogeneous … agents model, we find that even though the complete elimination of the tax subsidy leads to the unraveling of the employer …
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In countries where the political-economy incentives that governments face do not foster prudent revenue management, national revenue funds (NRFs) should not be used to impose optimal expenditure paths. In such countries, NRFs should instead be used as policy tools for re-aligning the diverging...
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bequests. In particular, if the government imposes a flat-rate consumption tax (which is neutral to the consumption …-saving margin), uses part of the tax revenue for unproductive purposes, and rebates the rest equally across agents as a lump …
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Is political fragmentation (i.e. nation states) more favorable to economic growth than political unification (i.e. a united empire)? This paper develops a simple endogenous-growth model to analyze the conditions under which economic growth is higher under political fragmentation than under...
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growth in the short run. Therefore, investment subsidy should not be financed by public debt but tax increases. …
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