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Land, Men, Taxation - An Application to Pre-Modern China and Europe: Erik Jones' European Miracle Revisited

Blankart, Charles B. - 2014

two tax systems came about. Taxation is only feasible when men and land can be linked as a single bundle. Taxation of land … is not feasible without men, and taxation of men is not feasible without land. A tax maximizing bureaucrat has to combine …

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Steuern in Fragilen Staaten: Empfehlungen für die Entwicklungszusammenarbeit

Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2010

projections of the future development. Then the role of taxation is discussed in detail before recommendations for the development … cooperation are presented. Obviously taxation plays a key role for the democratization process in fragile states. …

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Tax Policy and Economic Growth: Does It Really Matter?

Baiardi, Donatella; Profeta, Paola; Puglisi, Riccardo; … - 2017

We challenge the “OECD view” (Arnold et al. 2011) according to which a shift from direct to indirect taxation is … composition (in particular direct vs. indirect taxation). We can replicate the findings in Arnold et al. when focusing on the same …

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Fair and efficient taxation under partial control: Theory and evidence

Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2011

There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want to compensate others for their …

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How Democracy could foster Economic Growth: The Last 200 Years

Leonard, Carol S.; Yanovskiy, Konstantin Ė.; Shestakov, D. - 2014

In this paper we explore current understandings of the influence of political rights, among historical legacies, on economic development. We construct variables for selected political regimes for 1811-2010. We find significant association between individual rights and economic growth. We argue...

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Optimal Redistributive Pensions with Temptation and Costly Self-Control

Bouchard St-Amant, Pier-André; Garon, Jean-Denis - 2013

. In a scheme with a proportional income tax and benefits with a contributory component, taxation generally increases the … mental cost of self-control. This effect partially offsets the forced-saving benefits of public pensions, and call for a more …

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Optimal Redistributive Pensions and the Cost of Self-Control

Bouchard St-Amant, Pier-André; Garon, Jean-Denis - 2014

proportional taxation increases the cost of self-control, and that this adverse effect is more acute when public pensions become … of a public pension system: the contribution rate and its degree of redistribution. The pension regime affects …

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Inequality, infrastructure, and institutions: Empirical studies in public economics and political economy

Dorn, Florian - 2021

Florian Dorn prepared this study during his doctoral studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich (LMU). The study was completed in September 2020 and accepted as doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics. This dissertation contributes to the empirics of public economics and...

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Social Spending Generosity and Income Inequality: A Dynamic Panel Approach

Niehues, Judith - 2010

at the structure of benefits, particularly unemployment benefits and public pensions are responsible for the inequality …

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Patriotism, taxation and international mobility

Qari, Salmai; Konrad, Kai A.; Geys, Benny - 2009

redistributive taxation. In a formal model of redistribution with international migration and fiscal competition we derive the main … combining them with OECD taxation data, we find robust evidence suggesting that a) higher patriotism is associated with higher …

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