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Taxation of Real Estate in Sweden (1862–2013)

Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014

This paper examines the development and role of the real estate taxation in Sweden during the period between 1862 and … 2010. Real estate has historically been taxed at both the local and state levels in Sweden. The importance of real estate … taxation in Sweden is nevertheless difficult to assess directly because of the limited availability of data and the specific …

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Taxation of Goods and Services in Sweden (1862 - 2010)

Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013

This paper presents annual Swedish time series data regarding consumption taxes, i.e., the indirect taxation of goods and services, for the 1862–2013 period. As a share of total state tax revenue, consumption tax revenue was high at the beginning of the period, although as a share of GDP, it...

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Swedish Taxation Since 1862: An Overview

Henrekson, Magnus; Stenkula, Mikael - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2015

This paper examines the development of taxation in Sweden from 1862 to 2013. The examination covers six key aspects of … estate. The importance of these taxes varied greatly over time and Sweden increasingly relied on broad-based taxes (such as …

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Wagner's Law in 19th Century Greece: A Cointegration and Causality Analysis

Sideris, Dimitrios - Bank of Greece - 2007

The validity of Wagner’s law, which states that the growth of public expenditure can be explained as a result of the increase in economic activity, is tested for Greece during the period 1833-1938. This represents a period of growth, industrialisation and modernisation of the economy,...

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Four centuries of fiscal decentralisation in the Netherlands in view of different economic theoretic perspectives

Bos, Frits - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012

The history of the Netherlands reveals major shifts from centralisation of government tasks towards decentralisation and vice versa. In the seventeenth century, the Republic of United Provinces was the first federal state in modern history. Many transformations later the Kingdom of the...

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A history of resistance to privatization in Russia

Castañeda Dower, Paul; Markevich, Andrei - In: Journal of Comparative Economics 42 (2014) 4, pp. 855-873

We investigate the connection between privatization in post-communist Russia and a mass privatization reform in Imperial Russia, the 1906 Stolypin land reform. Specifically, we relate historical measures of conflicts associated with the Stolypin reform to contemporary views on whether the...

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Luigi Bodio: promoter of the political and high scientific mission of statistics and pioneer of the international statistical cooperation

Cappiello, Antonio - In: RIEDS - Rivista Italiana di Economia, Demografia e … LXVIII (2014) 3-4, pp. 199-205

Luigi Bodio (1840-1920) was an Italian economist and statistician, considered one of the founders of the Italian Statistics. He was one of the 21 founding members of the International Statistical Institute (ISI) in 1885, ISI Director-General during the first 20 years (1885-1905) and ISI...

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Testing Wagner's Law at Different Stages of Economic Development - A Historical Analysis of Five Western European Countries

Kuckuck, Jan - Institut für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung, … - 2012

economic development for five industrialized European countries: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Italy. In …

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Growth in public finances as tool for control: Norwegian development 1850-1950.

Grytten, Ola - Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi, Norges Handelshøyskole … - 2014

By drawing on information from public accounts from the nineteenth and twentieth century the present paper aims at mapping the development of key financial indicators for the Norwegian central government sector. It concludes that growth in the size of this sector often, but clearly not always,...

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Testing Wagner's Law at Different Stages of Economic Development

Kuckuck, Jan - In: FinanzArchiv: Public Finance Analysis 70 (2014) 1, pp. 128-168

different stages of economic development for five industrialized European countries: the United Kingdom, Denmark, Sweden …

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