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Measuring Economic Inequality: Deprivation, Economising And Possessing
December 30, 2009 12:00am PST
One way of measuring the deprivation or poverty of persons is to use money based measures: a person is regarded as "Poor" if his/her income (or expenditure) falls below a poverty line value. Such...
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Targeting The Unbanked-Financial Literacy~s Magic Bullet?
November 7, 2007 12:00am PST
Adult financial illiteracy is a major problem in the US and elsewhere. Financial fraud and poor performance in managing personal finances go hand in hand. The nation's bankruptcy and home mortgage...
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A Formula For The Optimal Taxation In Probabilistic Voting Models Characterized By Single Mindedness
November 7, 2007 12:00am PST
This paper intends to specify a formula for the optimal taxation in Probabilistic Voting Models with Single Mindedness Theory. The goal is to find an equivalent expression to the Ramsey's rule for...
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How Does An Entrepreneur's Ability Influence The Propensity To Exploit Novel Opportunities? The Moderating Role Of Personality And Environment
November 7, 2007 12:00am PST
While prior research has examined the influence of entrepreneurs' ability and personality on entrepreneurial behavior separately, the paper's contribution is to confirm their joint effects, as...
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Organisational Change And The Computerisation Of British And Spanish Savings Banks, Circa 1965-1985
April 5, 2009 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors explore organisational changes associated with the automation of non-bank financial intermediaries the UK while making a running comparison with developments in Spain....
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On The Risks Of Belonging To Disadvantaged Groups: A Bayesian Analysis Of Labour Market Outcomes
January 3, 2010 12:00am PST
Although methods of analysis based on Bayes' theorem have had rich applications in Law and in Medicine they have not been much used in Economics. The authors use Bayes' theorem to construct two...
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Real Business Cycles In The Model With Two-Person Household And Home Production
September 18, 2010 12:00am PDT
In the U.S. economy hours and productivity are negatively correlated, and volatility of hours is two times higher than volatility of productivity. In the standard one shock RBC model hours are...
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Entrepreneurial Intentions: The Influence Of Organizational And Individual Factors
July 14, 2009 12:00am PDT
An individual's intent to pursue an entrepreneurial career can result from the work environment and from personal factors. Drawing on the entrepreneurial intentions and the Person-Environment...
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A Stackelberg Model On Taxing Polluting Firms
July 8, 2010 12:00am PDT
In this paper the authors propose a leader - follower dynamic model of taxation with the government imposing a tax to internalize externalities caused by polluting firms. As expected the...
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The Submission Of Fiscal Declarations By Electronic Means Of Transmission At Distance
October 3, 2008 12:00am PDT
The unprecedented development of information technology in the past few years has made possible the transmission of information, inclusively fiscal information, by electronic means of transmission...
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Taxing Owner-Occupied Housing: Comparing The Netherlands To Other European Union Countries
November 22, 2007 12:00am PST
This paper compares owner-occupied housing tax regimes in the Netherlands and the other countries in the EU-15. The Netherlands appears to stand apart in two respects. First, in Luxembourg and the...
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Neural Substrates Of Decision-Making In Economic Games
November 7, 2007 12:00am PST
In economic experiments decisions often differ from game-theoretic predictions. Why are people generous in one-shot ultimatum games with strangers? Is there a benefit to generosity toward...
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The Effects Of Social Security On Private Savings: A Reappraisal Of The Time Series Evidence
December 10, 2009 12:00am PST
Section I reviews some of the important contributions using time series evidence to estimate Social Security's impact on private savings. Section II updates this Social Security Wealth series...
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Distribution, 'Financialisation' And The Financial And Economic Crisis - Implications For Post-Crisis Economic Policies
May 29, 2011 12:00am PDT
The severity of the financial and economic crisis which started in 2007 cannot be understood without examining the medium-to long-run developments in the world economy since the early 1980s. The...
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Dynamic Market For Lemons With Endogenous Quality Choice
March 18, 2011 12:00am PDT
The authors analyze a dynamic market for lemons in which the quality of the good is endogenously determined by the seller. Potential buyers sequentially submit offers to one seller. The seller can...
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America?s Underground Economy: Measuring The Size, Growth And Determinants Of Income Tax Evasion In The U.S
March 17, 2011 12:00am PDT
This paper empirically investigates the extent of non compliance with the tax code and the determinants of federal income tax evasion in the U.S. Employing the most recent data the authors find...
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The Natural Resource Curse, Fiscal Decentralization, And Agglomeration Economies
March 17, 2011 12:00am PDT
Natural resource abundance is a blessing for some countries, yet is a curse for others. The degree of fiscal decentralization may account for this divergent outcome. Resources tend to locate in...
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Does A Rising Tide Lift All Boats? Welfare Consequences Of Asymmetric Growth
March 7, 2011 12:00am PST
A common presumption is that increased growth in the aggregate enhances the welfare of both the rich and the poor. The author shows that instead, as the rich get richer, the welfare of the poor...
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Income Insurance And The Determinants Of Income Insurance Via Foreign Asset Revenues And Foreign Liability Payments
March 6, 2011 12:00am PST
The authors document that the net factor income smoothing channel in OECD countries is primarily driven by net financial asset income, while the other two sub-components (net compensation of...
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Temporal Granger Causality And The Dynamics Examination On The Tourism-growth Nexus In Malaysia
March 9, 2011 12:00am PST
This paper applied the cointegration, error-correction modeling and persistence profile to analyse the dynamic relationship between real tourism receipts, real income and real exchange rate in...
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