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Market forces and the continent's growth problem

2009

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Human Capital Investment and Globalization in Extortionary States

Andersson, Fredrik; Konrad, Kai A. - 2001

This paper considers education investment and public education subsidies in closed and open economies with an extortionary government. The extortionary government in a closed economy has incentives to subsidize education in order to overcome a hold-up problem of time consistent taxation, similar...

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Exit and voice: yardstick versus fiscal competition across governments

Bordignon, Massimo - 2007

Politicians are disciplined through the electoral system. But this is often not enough to eliminate political rents. Economists suggest that competition across governments may also help. But intergovernmental competition can take two forms, through tax competition (exit) or yardstick competition...

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Globalisierung und soziale Gerechtigkeit

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2003

Im Zusammenhang mit der Diskussion um die Globalisierung werden massive Vorwürfe gegen das ökonomische Gedankengebäude, aber auch die damit verbundenen menschlichen Verhaltensweisen ins Feld geführt. In einem verhaltenswissenschaftlich orientierten Ansatz wird daher zunächst aus...

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Optimal income taxation with tax competition

Lipatov, Vilen; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2010

We introduce tax competition for mobile labor into an optimal-taxation model with two skill levels. We analyze a symmetric subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium of the game between two governments and two taxpayer populations. Tax competition reduces the distortion from the informational asymmetry...

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Why Brennan and Buchanan are wrong (after all)

Apolte, Thomas - 2007

In their book The Power to Tax, Brennan and Buchanan have pointed to a central weakness of the traditional theory of … public finance and especially of the theory of optimal taxation: This approach overlooked the problem of governmental power … theory appears to be once the problem of power is considered. Nevertheless, Brennan and Buchanan's suggestions for …

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Reflections on the optimal size of government

Monissen, Hans G. - 1999

It is not always easy to see a common thread in Tullock's work: he is almost too fertile and throws off so many ideas in all directions that the connecting links between them threaten to disappear from view. Any simple summary of his 'system', therefore, must wait on some future effort of his...

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Capital Tax Competition with Inefficient Government Spending

Eggert, Wolfgang - 1999

Models of international tax competition typically assume the existence of a benevolent government. This paper presents a model which integrates the view of government as source of inefficiency with an analysis of distorting taxes on capital investment, savings and labor income in a common...

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Hobbes and the political economy of power

Wittman, Donald - 2006

This paper evaluates the sustainability of large current account imbalances in the era when the Chinese GDP growth rate and current account/GDP exceed 10%. We investigate the size distribution and the durability of current account deficits during 1966-2005, and report the results of a simulation...

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American Economic Growth in the Information Age

Jorgenson, Dale W. - In: CESifo Forum 02 (2001) 3, pp. 14-22

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