This paper evaluates the potential welfare gains in the Mercosur region of South America as a benefit of improvement to the trade administrations. Improvements to border procedures and processes leading to border procedures can save billions of dollars for the region, create markets for...

The influence of inter-municipal cooperation (IMC) on municipal finances remains underexplored. This study focuses on implementing the inter-municipal cooperation Cloud (IMC cloud), which is a pioneering digital framework that facilitates cooperation between municipalities in Japan. The findings...

Even though the U.S. healthcare system exhibits higher administrative costs than any other OECD nation, they have not received substantial attention from policymakers despite their enormous cost and impact on the market. We argue that competition policy could meaningfully reduce these...

Public-Private Partnerships (PPP) which promotes public welfare is greatly supported by the China government. The authority endorsements relax financial constraints and promote operation efficiency. Using a sample of 9,733 firm-years in the empirical study, it is found that companies...

A perennial task for the state is the creation and policing of categories. State-created categories have real world impacts on the public. The consequences of racial categorizations, for example, are well-documented. We examine a less studied consequence of state categorization, which are the...

There are many individual account proposals. For government-organized accounts, the government arranges for both record-keeping and investment management. For privately-organized accounts, individuals directly select private firms to do these tasks. The government spreads the costs of...

This paper explores the trade-off between incentive effects and administrative costs associated with the implementation of various environmental tax instruments, with special reference to carbon taxes. In a simple model, we show under what conditions it is optimal to use input rather than...

This paper examines how the optimal Pigouvian tax should be adjusted to reflect administrative costs. Several cases are examined, depending on whether the administrative costs are fixed per firm taxed or are a function of the amount of tax collected, and on whether such costs are borne by the...

This chapter considers key aspects of that literature. It starts (in Section 2) by explaining what is usually meant by the term “operating costs” and discussing some of the conceptual issues that arise. It then reviews (in Section 3) the research that has taken place on this topic, including...

Capital cities serve as the administrative centers of state governments and perform many functions, such as housing the seats of state government and often serving as the focal points of culture and history in their states. Many capital cities across the United States incur large direct and...

This paper seeks to assess the effectiveness of customs policies in increasing the resources devoted to controlling and inspection. Specifically, it seeks to analyze whether an increase in the administrative cost of collecting taxes on foreign trade in Ecuador contributes to reducing customs...

We examine the diversification of administrative and procedural costs on patent stock using a large dataset from the European Patent Office with 15,000 firms for the period between 1995 and 2015. The results reveal that administrative and procedural costs are significant for firm-level patenting...

This paper provides evidence how parking reforms can help reduce car dependency and achieve a more efficient use of city space. It looks at how the price and availability of parking influence transport choices and urban form. It also investigates the effect of minimum parking requirements and...

This paper provides evidence how parking reforms can help reduce car dependency and achieve a more efficient use of city space. It looks at how the price and availability of parking influence transport choices and urban form. It also investigates the effect of minimum parking requirements and...

Citizens confront multiple challenges when attempting to access public services. This article focuses on an aspect yet unaddressed by existing literature on administrative burdens: the complexity of the written language used by government agencies in Latin America. It presents an impact...

In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir, dass die Fusion der Länder Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen zu einem Bundesland „Mitteldeutschland“ kaum Einsparungen erbringen würde. Eine Fusion würde weniger als 0,1 % der Landesausgaben (rund 2,90 Euro je Einwohner und Jahr) einsparen. Dies liegt...

In diesem Beitrag zeigen wir, dass die Fusion der Länder Sachsen, Sachsen-Anhalt und Thüringen zu einem Bundesland „Mitteldeutschland“ kaum Einsparungen erbringen würde. Eine Fusion würde weniger als 0,1 % der Landesausgaben (rund 2,90 Euro je Einwohner und Jahr) einsparen. Dies liegt...

In 2010 the European Commission (EC) launched a review of the Working Time Directive (WTD) 2003/88/EC based on two elements: (i) a two-phase consultation process of European social partners and (ii) an assessment of the social and economic impacts of a series of policy options to amend the...

This annex provides the individual case-study reports from the seven Member States (MS) where fieldwork was carried out. The majority of interviews were conducted with enterprises (healthcare facilities included) as planned, followed by social partner organisations, national authorities...

Charity rating agencies often focus on overhead cost ratios in evaluating charities, and donors appear to be sensitive to these measures when deciding where to donate. Yet, there appears to be a tenuous connection between this widely-used metric and a charity’s effectiveness. There is evidence...

Administrative costs of environmental taxes are a more and more discussed topic. These costs should be understood as part of the tax entity, so by the tax administrator. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the administrative costs of environmental taxes in the Czech Republic from the...

This paper examines the determination of the optimal threshold value for Goods and Services Tax (GST) for imported units arising from internet orders. The concept of an optimal threshold is wider than simply the maximisation of revenue net of administrative costs. At the optimal threshold, the...

As administrative burden’s reduction (AB) is of crucial importance in order to ensure competitive conditions for national economies, measurement standardization and objectivity is a key component for the implementation of good regulation principles and administrative cost reduction....

In this paper, we review the most prominent provision of the federal income tax code that targets low-income tax filers, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), as well as the structurally similar Child Tax Credit (CTC). We frame the paper around what we see as the programs' goals: distributional,...

In this paper, we review the most prominent provision of the federal income tax code that targets low-income tax filers, the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC), as well as the structurally similar Child Tax Credit (CTC). We frame the paper around what we see as the programs' goals: distributional,...

This paper provides evidence how parking reforms can help reduce car dependency and achieve a more efficient use of city space. It looks at how the price and availability of parking influence transport choices and urban form. It also investigates the effect of minimum parking requirements and...

Die jüngsten Entwicklungen in Griechenland und die Ankündigung der EZB, für mehr als eine Bil-lion Euro Staatsanleihen zu kaufen, zeigen zweierlei: Zum einen, dass die Staatsschuldenkrise noch lange nicht überwunden ist, und zum anderen, dass der Weg in die europäische Haftungs-union...