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Regional Disparities and Transfer Policies in Russia : Theory and Evidence

Dabla-Norris, Era; Weber, Shlomo - 2021

In this paper we examine economic disparities across regions in Russia and offer a theoretical treatment of various transfer rules between different regions. We analyze the principle of partial equalization, which implies that the more depressed regions should be subsidized by the more...

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Optimal Territorial Scope of Laws

Carbonara, Emanuela; Luppi, Barbara; Parisi, Francesco - 2008

In this paper we analyze the factors that should be considered when allocating a given policy function at a particular level of government and how these factors affect the growth and evolution of multi-level governments. After discussing the interplay of economies of scale, economies of scope,...

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Institutional Designs in International Transactions - An Evolutionary Economics Perspective

Freiling, Jörg - 2008

The globalisation of the economy goes along with numerous kinds of uncertainty and requires adequate institutional designs in order to avoid disadvantageous situations from the actors' points of view. Institutional designs usually consist of a mix of different institutions that are adapted to...

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Positive Effects of Improvements in The Fields of Enforcement and Tax Policies In Serbia

Nagy, Attila - 2018

Serbia. These ideas are based on the Governmental policies and even more on the need of the Serbian economy and its citizens … having the same idea of joining the EU different governments in the past and now claim that they will lead Serbia on the … in transition. The new procedure of debt collection in Serbia is done with an intention to make debtors pay more easily …

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Almost Subsidy-free Spatial Pricing in a Multi-dimensional Setting

Savvateev, Alexei; Drèze, Jacques; Le Breton, Michel; … - 2007

Consider a population of citizens uniformly spread over the entire plane, that faces a problem of locating public facilities to be used by its members. The cost of every facility is financed by its users, who also face an idiosyncratic private access cost to the facility. We assume that the...

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Environmental Policy, Firm Location, And Product Differentiation: The Role of Green Preferences and Inter-firm Pollution

Kuhn, Michael - 1997

Endogenous firm location is analyzed in a discrete two-region-two-firm model of product differentiation. In a non-cooperative game, two regional governments first decide on the imposition (or lifting) of domestic production standards; firms then choose technology (clean or polluting), location...

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Asymmetric competition among nation states: A differential game approach

Han, Yutao; Pieretti, Patrice; Zanaj, Skerdilajda; Zou, … - 2012

This paper analyzes the impact of foreign investments on a small country's economy in the context of international competition. To that end, we model tax and infrastructure competition within a differential game framework between two unequally sized countries. The model accounts for the widely...

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Agglomeration and tax competition

Pflüger, Michael; Borck, Rainald - 2004

Tax competition for a mobile factor is different in 'new economic geography set- tings' compared to standard tax competition models. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor in the core region can be taxed. Moreover, a tax differential between the core and the periphery can be...

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Combining Dutch presumptive capital income tax and US qualified intermediaries to set forth a new system of international savings taxation

Gérard, Marcel - 2004

Beyond the traditional debates over information exchange vs flat taxation at source, legislative advances have produced interesting innovations and suggestions concerning how to tax international savings. We examine some of these advances, which we then use to set forth and investigate a...

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How fiscal decentralization flattens progressive taxes

Hodler, Roland; Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2005

We study the tension between fiscal decentralization and progressive taxation. We present a multi-community model in which households differ in incomes and housing preferences and in which the local income tax rate is a function of an exogenous progressive tax schedule and an endogenous local...

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