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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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Negative Leakage

April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The authors build a simple analytical general equilibrium model and linearize it, to find a closed-from expression for the effect of a small change in carbon tax on leakage - the increase in...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Public Policy, State Business Climates, And Economic Growth

April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

State business climate indexes are a popular means of summarizing the "Bundles" of state policies that might affect state economic growth. But the rankings of states' business climates vary...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Foresight And Information Flows

April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

News - or foresight - about future economic fundamentals can create rational expectations equilibria with non-fundamental representations that pose substantial challenges to econometric efforts to...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Fiscal Zoning And Sales Taxes: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead To More Retailing And Less Manufacturing?

April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

The authors test the hypothesis that local government officials in jurisdictions that have higher local sales taxes are more likely to use fiscal zoning to encourage retailing. They find that...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Capping Individual Tax Expenditure Benefits

April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

This paper analyzes a new way of reducing the major individual tax expenditures: capping the total amount that tax expenditures as a whole can reduce each individual's tax burden. More...

Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research

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Subject Choice And Earnings Of UK Graduates

April 1, 2011 12:00am PDT

Using a survey of a cohort of UK graduates, linked to administrative data on higher education participation, this paper investigates the labor market attainment of recent graduates by subject of...

Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor

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Procedurally Fair Taxation

March 29, 2011 12:00am PDT

The authors study the implications of procedural fairness on income taxation. They formulate procedural fairness as a particular non-cooperative bargaining game and examine the stationary subgame...

Provided by: Maastricht University

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DIY: Accounting on a shoestring budget with GnuCash

March 25, 2011 4:49pm PDT

GnuCash is a free, open source, and cross-platform accounting solution that Jack Wallen says is more reliable than QuickBooks. He discusses GnuCash's features, as well as two of its drawbacks.

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The Impact Of Fiscal Policy On Economic Activity Over The Business Cycle - Evidence From A Threshold VAR Analysis

March 25, 2011 12:00am PDT

Does the state of the business cycle matter for the effects of fiscal policy shocks on GDP? This paper analyses quarterly German data from 1976 to 2009 in a threshold SVAR, expanding the SVAR...

Provided by: Deutsche Bundesbank

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Fiscal Disciplining Effect Of Central Bank Opacity: Stackelberg Versus Nash Equilibrium

March 24, 2011 12:00am PDT

In a Stackelberg equilibrium, central bank opacity has a fiscal disciplining effect in the sense that it induces the government to reduce taxes and public expenditures, leading hence to lower...

Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive

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The Optimal Inflation Tax In The Presence Of Imperfect Deposit - Currency Substitution

March 22, 2011 12:00am PDT

During the last decades, technological innovation has generated a major transformation in payment systems, stimulating a widespread use of different forms of electronic money and increasing...

Provided by: Central Bank of Chile

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Budget Consolidations In The Aftermath Of A Financial Crisis: Lessons From The Swedish Budget Consolidation 1994-1997

March 21, 2011 12:00am PDT

The Expansionary Fiscal Contraction (EFC) hypothesis suggests that a major fiscal consolidation leads to an economic expansion. The authors test this hypothesis, and the implied non - linear...

Provided by: University of Copenhagen

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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...

Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive

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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...

Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive

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A Note On Environmental Policy And Innovation When Governments Cannot Commit

March 15, 2011 12:00am PDT

It is widely accepted that one of the most important characteristics of an effective climate policy is to provide firms with credible incentives to make long-run investments in R&D that can...

Provided by: Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

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How businesses can cut cell phone costs

March 11, 2011 11:12pm PST

Deb Shinder offers cost-cutting tips to businesses that provide employees with mobile phones or reimburse workers for some or all of their cell phone expenses.

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IT contractors face IR35 tax reprieve

March 10, 2011 9:14am PST

Treasury body recommends IR35 is abolished...

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Poll: What geographic size do you target when writing apps?

March 8, 2011 9:54am PST

Poll: What geographic size do you target when writing apps? article root Depends on our sphere of influence, or "our own little world" My sphere doesn't extend much beyond the state I...

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Does Foreign Environmental Policy Influence Domestic Innovation ? Evidence From The Wind Industry

March 7, 2011 12:00am PST

This paper examines the relative influence of domestic and foreign renewable energy policies on innovation activity in wind power using patent data from OECD countries from 1994 to 2005. The...

Provided by: London School of Economics and Political Science