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Dynamically Scaling Applications in the Cloud
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an "Advanced Outsourcing" solution. However, there...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Maximizing Human Development
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Human Development Index (HDI) is widely used as an aggregate measure of overall human well being. The authors examine the allocations implied by the maximization of this index, using a...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Elasticity Of Taxable Income In New Zealand
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports estimates of the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate for New Zealand taxpayers. The elasticity of taxable income was estimated to be substantially...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Employed, The Unemployed, And The Unemployable: Directed Search With Worker Heterogeneity
March 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the implications of worker heterogeneity on the equilibrium matching process, using a directed search model. Worker abilities are selected from a general distribution, subject...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Reflections On The Tax Working Group Report
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper reviews the Report of the Tax Working Group of the Victoria University of Wellington, which included individuals from the Treasury and the Inland Revenue Department, as well as from the...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Modelling Personal Income Taxation In Spain: Revenue Elasticities And Regional Comparisons
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper derives analytical expressions for the revenue elasticity of the Spanish personal income tax system, as applied to tax units and in aggregate. This is complicated by the schedular...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Modelling Aggregate Personal Income Tax Revenue In Multi?-Schedular And Multi?-Regional Structures
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper derives analytical expressions for aggregate personal income tax revenue obtained from a multi-scheduler and multi-regional personal income tax system, with revenue divided among...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Voting Over Taxes And Expenditure: The Role Of Home Production
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates, first, how allowance for subsistence activities, or home production, affects the standard results in models involving the majority choice of the tax rate in a flat tax -...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Costly External Finance, Reallocation, And Aggregate Productivity
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Empirical studies document that resource reallocation across production units play an important role in accounting for aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. manufacturing. Distortions in...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Behavioural Responses To Corporate Profit Taxation
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines behavioural responses by companies to changes in profit taxation in their home country. The elasticity of tax revenue with respect to changes in the corporation tax rate is...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Corporation Tax Asymmetries: Effective Tax Rates And Profit Shifting
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the way in which the asymmetric treatment of losses within corporate tax codes can be expected to affect behavioural responses to changes in tax rates. The paper introduces the...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Learning-by-Doing And Productivity Dynamics In Manufacturing Industries
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper estimates a structural model of learning-by-doing. Treating production experience as a state variable, this paper provides estimates of the structural parameters obtained from the first...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Nowcasting, Business Cycle Dating And The Interpretation Of New Information When Real Time Data Are Available
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A canonical model is described which reflects the real time informational context of decision-making. Comparisons are drawn with 'Conventional' models that incorrectly omit market-informed...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Human Development Index As A Criterion For Optimal Planning
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Planning strategies that maximize the Human Development Index (HDI) tend towards minimizing consumption and maximizing non-investment expenditures on education and health. Interestingly, such...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Global Income Distribution And Inequality: 1993 And 2000
January 30, 2009, 12:00am PST
The nature of global and regional income distributions and the extent of inequality are examined using country-level data on income distributions drawn from World Bank studies and the World...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Personal Income Tax Structure: Theory And Policy
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
There is now a large and complex literature on optimal income taxation, within the context of second-best welfare economics. This paper considers the potential role of this analysis in the...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Population Ageing And Taxation In New Zealand
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers the implications for personal income tax and Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenues of population ageing in New Zealand. It considers 'Pure' ageing effects; that is, population...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Elections And The Strategic Use Of Budget Deficits
July 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a model in which a conservative incumbent with preferences for low public spending can strategically run a budget deficit to prevent the left-wing opposition candidate from...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Elasticity Of Taxable Income: An Introduction
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate. This elasticity aims to capture all potential responses to income...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Regional Dimensions Of The Australian Business Cycle
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper deals with the identification of, and explanations for, co-movement in regional business cycles using data for Australian states and territories (regions). The authors show that both...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Income Tax Revenue Elasticities In Spain: Individual And Aggregate Measures
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper derives analytical expressions for the revenue elasticity of the Spanish personal income tax system, as applied to tax units and in aggregate. This is complicated by the schedular...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Income Tax Revenue: Some Simple Analytics
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper takes familiar analytical expressions for total income tax revenue, expressed in terms of summary measures of the distribution of taxable income, and relates them to distances and...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Elasticity Of Taxable Income And The Tax Revenue Elasticity
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the joint role of the elasticity of taxable income (the effect on taxable income of a tax rise) and the revenue elasticity (the effect on revenue of a change in taxable income)...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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A Loglinear Tax And Transfer Function: Majority Voting And Optimal Rates
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the use of a loglinear tax and transfer function, displaying increasing marginal and average tax rates along with a means-tested transfer payment. The two parameters are a...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Lure Authority: Motivation And Incentive Effects Of Power
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life but there is limited empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority. The authors experimentally...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Modelling Behavioural Responses To Profit Taxation: The Case Of The UK Corporation Tax
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines behavioural responses by companies to changes in profit taxation in their home country. It argues that as well as distinguishing real from shifting responses for profits, it is...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Where Is Full Employment?
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Unemployment in Australia is now at its lowest in over 30 years. The rate for April 2007, for example, of 4.4 per cent, is substantially less than the previous trough of 5.6 per cent, in 1989....
Provided by University of Melbourne
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The Fundamental Duality Theorem Of Balanced Growth
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors demonstrate that a simple duality relation underlies balanced growth models with non-joint production. Included in this class of models are the standard neoclassical...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Declarative Diagnosis of Floundering
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many logic programming languages have delay primitives which allow coroutining. This introduces a class of bug symptoms - computations can flounder when they are intended to succeed or finitely...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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An Adaptive Checkpointing Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Based Volunteer Computing Work Flows
February 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
Volunteer Computing, sometimes called Public Resource Computing, is an emerging computational model that is very suitable for work-pooled parallel processing. As more complex grid applications...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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A Taxonomy of Peer-to-Peer Based Complex Queries: A Grid Perspective
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Grid superscheduling requires support for efficient and scalable discovery of resources. Resource discovery activities involve searching for the appropriate resource types that match the user's...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Mean Field Models of Message Throughput in Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Systems
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
The churn rate of a peer-to-peer system places direct limitations on the rate at which messages can be effectively communicated to a group of peers. These limitations are independent of the...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Jeeva: Enterprise Grid Enabled Web Portal for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction
September 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The structure of protein plays a key role in the structure-based design of drugs for the treatment of various diseases. However, it is still a challenge to find out protein structure based on its...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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Multi-Objective Problem Solving With Offspring on Enterprise Clouds
December 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a distributed implementation of a network based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm called EMO by using Offspring. Network based evolutionary algorithms have...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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A Linear Programming Driven Genetic Algorithm for Meta-Scheduling on Utility Grids
September 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The user-level brokers in grids consider individual application QoS requirements and minimize their cost without considering demands from other users. This results in contention for resources and...
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Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Utility Computing Systems
October 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee that consumers'...
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Number of Measurements in Sparse Signal Recovery
April 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze the asymptotic performance of sparse signal recovery from noisy measurements. In particular, they generalize some of the existing results for the Gaussian case to subgaussian...
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The Use of Topic Representative Words in Text Categorization
November 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors present a novel way to identify the representative words that are able to capture the topic of documents for use in text categorization. The intuition is that not all word n-grams...
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Survey of Trust Models in Different Network Domains
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces the security and trust concepts in wireless sensor networks and explains the difference between them, stating that even though both terms are used interchangeably when...
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Architecture and Performance Models for QoS-Driven Effective Peering of Content Delivery Networks
June 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The proprietary nature of existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) means they are closed and do not naturally cooperate. A CDN is expected to provide high performance Internet content delivery...
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Architecture and Performance Models for QoS-Driven Effective Peering of Content Delivery Networks
June 27, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The proprietary nature of existing Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) means they are closed and do not naturally cooperate. A CDN is expected to provide high performance Internet content delivery...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Survey of Trust Models in Different Network Domains
September 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper introduces the security and trust concepts in wireless sensor networks and explains the difference between them, stating that even though both terms are used interchangeably when...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
The Use of Topic Representative Words in Text Categorization
November 10, 2009, 12:00am PST
The authors present a novel way to identify the representative words that are able to capture the topic of documents for use in text categorization. The intuition is that not all word n-grams...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Number of Measurements in Sparse Signal Recovery
April 29, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze the asymptotic performance of sparse signal recovery from noisy measurements. In particular, they generalize some of the existing results for the Gaussian case to subgaussian...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
Service Level Agreement (SLA) in Utility Computing Systems
October 13, 2010, 12:00am PDT
In recent years, extensive research has been conducted in the area of Service Level Agreement (SLA) for utility computing systems. An SLA is a formal contract used to guarantee that consumers'...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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White Papers
A Linear Programming Driven Genetic Algorithm for Meta-Scheduling on Utility Grids
September 18, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The user-level brokers in grids consider individual application QoS requirements and minimize their cost without considering demands from other users. This results in contention for resources and...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Multi-Objective Problem Solving With Offspring on Enterprise Clouds
December 31, 2008, 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors present a distributed implementation of a network based multi-objective evolutionary algorithm called EMO by using Offspring. Network based evolutionary algorithms have...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Jeeva: Enterprise Grid Enabled Web Portal for Protein Secondary Structure Prediction
September 30, 2008, 12:00am PDT
The structure of protein plays a key role in the structure-based design of drugs for the treatment of various diseases. However, it is still a challenge to find out protein structure based on its...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Mean Field Models of Message Throughput in Dynamic Peer-to-Peer Systems
February 5, 2008, 12:00am PST
The churn rate of a peer-to-peer system places direct limitations on the rate at which messages can be effectively communicated to a group of peers. These limitations are independent of the...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
A Taxonomy of Peer-to-Peer Based Complex Queries: A Grid Perspective
February 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
Grid superscheduling requires support for efficient and scalable discovery of resources. Resource discovery activities involve searching for the appropriate resource types that match the user's...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
An Adaptive Checkpointing Scheme for Peer-to-Peer Based Volunteer Computing Work Flows
February 2, 2008, 12:00am PST
Volunteer Computing, sometimes called Public Resource Computing, is an emerging computational model that is very suitable for work-pooled parallel processing. As more complex grid applications...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Declarative Diagnosis of Floundering
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Many logic programming languages have delay primitives which allow coroutining. This introduces a class of bug symptoms - computations can flounder when they are intended to succeed or finitely...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
The Fundamental Duality Theorem Of Balanced Growth
November 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors demonstrate that a simple duality relation underlies balanced growth models with non-joint production. Included in this class of models are the standard neoclassical...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Where Is Full Employment?
October 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
Unemployment in Australia is now at its lowest in over 30 years. The rate for April 2007, for example, of 4.4 per cent, is substantially less than the previous trough of 5.6 per cent, in 1989....
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Modelling Behavioural Responses To Profit Taxation: The Case Of The UK Corporation Tax
July 1, 2007, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines behavioural responses by companies to changes in profit taxation in their home country. It argues that as well as distinguishing real from shifting responses for profits, it is...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
The Lure Authority: Motivation And Incentive Effects Of Power
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
Authority and power permeate political, social, and economic life but there is limited empirical knowledge about the motivational origins and consequences of authority. The authors experimentally...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
A Loglinear Tax And Transfer Function: Majority Voting And Optimal Rates
December 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper explores the use of a loglinear tax and transfer function, displaying increasing marginal and average tax rates along with a means-tested transfer payment. The two parameters are a...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
The Elasticity Of Taxable Income And The Tax Revenue Elasticity
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper examines the joint role of the elasticity of taxable income (the effect on taxable income of a tax rise) and the revenue elasticity (the effect on revenue of a change in taxable income)...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Income Tax Revenue: Some Simple Analytics
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper takes familiar analytical expressions for total income tax revenue, expressed in terms of summary measures of the distribution of taxable income, and relates them to distances and...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Income Tax Revenue Elasticities In Spain: Individual And Aggregate Measures
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper derives analytical expressions for the revenue elasticity of the Spanish personal income tax system, as applied to tax units and in aggregate. This is complicated by the schedular...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Regional Dimensions Of The Australian Business Cycle
December 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
This paper deals with the identification of, and explanations for, co-movement in regional business cycles using data for Australian states and territories (regions). The authors show that both...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
The Elasticity Of Taxable Income: An Introduction
October 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper provides an introduction to the concept of the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate. This elasticity aims to capture all potential responses to income...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Elections And The Strategic Use Of Budget Deficits
July 23, 2009, 12:00am PDT
The authors present a model in which a conservative incumbent with preferences for low public spending can strategically run a budget deficit to prevent the left-wing opposition candidate from...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Population Ageing And Taxation In New Zealand
July 1, 2009, 12:00am PDT
This paper considers the implications for personal income tax and Goods and Services Tax (GST) revenues of population ageing in New Zealand. It considers 'Pure' ageing effects; that is, population...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
The Personal Income Tax Structure: Theory And Policy
February 1, 2009, 12:00am PST
There is now a large and complex literature on optimal income taxation, within the context of second-best welfare economics. This paper considers the potential role of this analysis in the...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Global Income Distribution And Inequality: 1993 And 2000
January 30, 2009, 12:00am PST
The nature of global and regional income distributions and the extent of inequality are examined using country-level data on income distributions drawn from World Bank studies and the World...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
The Human Development Index As A Criterion For Optimal Planning
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Planning strategies that maximize the Human Development Index (HDI) tend towards minimizing consumption and maximizing non-investment expenditures on education and health. Interestingly, such...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Nowcasting, Business Cycle Dating And The Interpretation Of New Information When Real Time Data Are Available
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
A canonical model is described which reflects the real time informational context of decision-making. Comparisons are drawn with 'Conventional' models that incorrectly omit market-informed...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Learning-by-Doing And Productivity Dynamics In Manufacturing Industries
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper estimates a structural model of learning-by-doing. Treating production experience as a state variable, this paper provides estimates of the structural parameters obtained from the first...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Corporation Tax Asymmetries: Effective Tax Rates And Profit Shifting
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines the way in which the asymmetric treatment of losses within corporate tax codes can be expected to affect behavioural responses to changes in tax rates. The paper introduces the...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Behavioural Responses To Corporate Profit Taxation
January 1, 2008, 12:00am PST
This paper examines behavioural responses by companies to changes in profit taxation in their home country. The elasticity of tax revenue with respect to changes in the corporation tax rate is...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Costly External Finance, Reallocation, And Aggregate Productivity
May 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
Empirical studies document that resource reallocation across production units play an important role in accounting for aggregate productivity growth in the U.S. manufacturing. Distortions in...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Voting Over Taxes And Expenditure: The Role Of Home Production
September 1, 2008, 12:00am PDT
This paper investigates, first, how allowance for subsistence activities, or home production, affects the standard results in models involving the majority choice of the tax rate in a flat tax -...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Modelling Aggregate Personal Income Tax Revenue In Multi?-Schedular And Multi?-Regional Structures
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper derives analytical expressions for aggregate personal income tax revenue obtained from a multi-scheduler and multi-regional personal income tax system, with revenue divided among...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Modelling Personal Income Taxation In Spain: Revenue Elasticities And Regional Comparisons
April 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper derives analytical expressions for the revenue elasticity of the Spanish personal income tax system, as applied to tax units and in aggregate. This is complicated by the schedular...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Reflections On The Tax Working Group Report
March 1, 2010, 12:00am PST
This paper reviews the Report of the Tax Working Group of the Victoria University of Wellington, which included individuals from the Treasury and the Inland Revenue Department, as well as from the...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
The Employed, The Unemployed, And The Unemployable: Directed Search With Worker Heterogeneity
March 15, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The authors examine the implications of worker heterogeneity on the equilibrium matching process, using a directed search model. Worker abilities are selected from a general distribution, subject...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
The Elasticity Of Taxable Income In New Zealand
July 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
This paper reports estimates of the elasticity of taxable income with respect to the net-of-tax rate for New Zealand taxpayers. The elasticity of taxable income was estimated to be substantially...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Maximizing Human Development
October 1, 2010, 12:00am PDT
The Human Development Index (HDI) is widely used as an aggregate measure of overall human well being. The authors examine the allocations implied by the maximization of this index, using a...
Provided by University of Melbourne
-
White Papers
Dynamically Scaling Applications in the Cloud
January 1, 2011, 12:00am PST
Scalability is said to be one of the major advantages brought by the cloud paradigm and, more specifically, the one that makes it different to an "Advanced Outsourcing" solution. However, there...
Provided by University of Melbourne
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