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Here's an interesting thought

May 5, 2011 9:56pm PDT

Here's an interesting thought I came across this today. Not sure if you've seen it, but thought it'd be worth sharing. http://www.wallstats.com/deathandtaxes/ ------ What has the United States...

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Ownership Efficiency And Tax Advantages: The Case Of Private Equity Buyouts

May 4, 2011 12:00am PDT

Private equity firms are drivers of the ongoing international restructuring process. Extensive use of leverage gives private equity firms a tax advantage in the market for corporate control. The...

Provided by: Research Institute of Industrial Economics

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Anticipation, Learning And Welfare: The Case Of Distortionary Taxation

May 4, 2011 12:00am PDT

The authors study the impact of anticipated fiscal policy changes in the Ramsey economy when agents form expectations using adaptive learning. They extend the existing framework by distortionary...

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State Fiscal Policies And Transitory Income Fluctuations

May 2, 2011 12:00am PDT

State and local expenditure and tax revenue respond less to the business cycle than do federal spending and revenue, thereby reducing the countercyclicality of total government expenditure and...

Provided by: University of Michigan

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Government Size And Growth: A Survey And Interpretation Of The Evidence

May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in definitions...

Provided by: Research Institute of Industrial Economics

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Optimal Policy Instruments For Externality-Producing Durable Goods Under Time Inconsistency

May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

When consumers exhibit present bias and are time-inconsistent, the standard solution to market failures caused by externalities - Pigouvian pricing - is suboptimal. The author investigates...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Optimal Taxation With Rent-Seeking

May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Recent policy proposals have suggested taxing top incomes at very high rates on the grounds that some or all of the highest wage earners are engaged in socially unproductive or counterproductive...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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New Keynesian Dynamics In A Low Interest Rate Environment

May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Recent research has found that the dynamic properties of the New Keynesian model can be very different when the nominal interest rate is zero. Improvements in technology and reductions in the...

Provided by: Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta

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Employment, Hours Of Work And The Optimal Taxation Of Low Income Families

May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The optimal design of low income support is examined using a structural labour supply model. The approach incorporates unobserved heterogeneity, fixed costs of work, childcare costs and the...

Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor

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Unified Service Platform for Accessing Grid Resources

May 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Web Services Resource Framework (WSRF) redefines Grid Services standards and extends Web Services by adding stateful resources. Using GT4 to develop WSRF Grid Services is a taxing work, and it is...

Provided by: Academy Publisher

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10 Ways to Stretch Your Storage Budgets in Virtualized, Consolidated Environments White Paper

April 29, 2011 12:00am PDT

Everyone's heard the line about the only inevitabilities in life being death and taxes. IT managers, however, would quickly assert a third absolute - higher storage needs. There's no question data...

Provided by: Oracle

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Monetary And Fiscal Policy Should Be Merged, Which In Turn Changes The Role Of Central Banks

April 26, 2011 12:00am PDT

Keeping monetary and fiscal policy separate causes economic distortions, thus the two should be merged. That is, in a recession for example, the government and central bank should simply spend...

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Fiscal Policy Multipliers In A New Keynesian Model Under Positive And Zero Nominal Interest Rate

April 25, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper uses a simple new-Keynesian model (with and without capital) and calculates multipliers of four types. That is, the authors assume either an increase in government spending or a cut in...

Provided by: Cardiff University

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Barriers In EU Retail Financial Markets

April 20, 2011 12:00am PDT

Looking at the retail financial markets and identifying a number of ''Natural'' and ''Policy induced'' obstacles to free trade. The authors use the term ''Natural'' barriers to refer to those...

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Migration, Social Security, And Economic Growth

April 12, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper studies the effect of population aging on economic performance in an overlapping-generations model with international migration. Fertility is endogenized so that immigrants and natives...

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Variable names should usually be descriptive

April 6, 2011 10:54am PDT

Variable names should usually be descriptive article root I wish it had disappeared with early BASIC Unfortunately, other languages with greater longevity continued to limit variable names to...

181 Started by Sterling "chip" Camden  |  Latest comment by adornoe

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Use this Excel tool before you make your next IT expenditure

April 6, 2011 10:32am PDT

Planning for the expensing of a significant piece of information technology equipment over several years can play a major role in your purchase decision. This Excel tool can help.

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TechRepublic's Depreciation Calculator

April 6, 2011 12:00am PDT

Whether you're a small, one-person shop or a large international enterprise, there will likely come a point in time where you will have to deal with the concept of depreciation. Planning for the...

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Job search expenses that are tax deductible

April 5, 2011 5:28am PDT

Job search expenses that are tax deductible article root But what about other things.... This was a really good article. Although i do have a question about other things like training. For...

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Job search expenses that are tax deductible

April 4, 2011 4:56am PDT

There may be a ray of sunshine in job search drudgery: tax deductible expenses.

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