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Mobile app boom will tax enterprise IT
March 1, 2011 12:39pm PST
The mobile app market is booming and enterprises have plans to better target employees, partners and customers. The rub is that few information technology departments have the skills and resources...
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Tax-Benefit Incidence Of Value Added Tax On Food And Medicine To Fund Progressive Social Expenditure
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
In 2009, the Mexican Congress received a proposal of a generalized 2% increase in the statutory VAT rate, including currently untaxed food and medicine. Whereas opponents emphasized the regressive...
Provided by: Rice University
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Fuel Tax Incidence And Supply Conditions
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The incidence of taxes on consumers and producers plays a central role in evaluating energy tax policy, yet the literature testing the main predictions of the tax incidence model is sparse. In...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Role Of Housing Tax Provisions In The 2008 Financial Crisis
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The 2008 financial crisis is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929. It has been characterised by a housing bubble in a context of rapid credit expansion, high risk-taking...
Provided by: European Union
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The Efficient Provision Of Public Goods Through Non-Distortionary Tax Contests
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The authors use a simple balanced budget contest to collect taxes on a private good in order to finance a pure public good. They show that - with an appropriately chosen structure of winning...
Provided by: University of York
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The Effect Of Tax Preferences On Health Spending
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
In this paper, the authors estimate the effect of the tax preference for health insurance on health care spending using data from the Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys from 1996-2005. They use the...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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The Response Of Labour Taxation To Changes In Government Debt
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
This paper investigates the relationship between government debt and labour taxation for a panel of 18 EU countries over the period 1979-2008. The econometric estimates point to a statistically...
Provided by: European Central Bank
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The Effects Of Alcohol Policies In Reducing Entry Rates And Time Spent In Foster Care
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The purpose of this paper is to empirically estimate the propensity for alcohol-related policies to influence rates of entry into foster care and the length of time spent in foster care. Alcohol...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
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Growth And Recovery In A Time Of Default
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
International narratives on Argentina's recovery from the crisis of 2001-02 tend to emphasize the role of rising commodity prices and growing demand from China. Argentina is said to have been...
Provided by: United Nations University
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Cigarette Taxes And The Social Market
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
Previous researchers have argued that the social market for cigarettes insulates its participants from policies designed to curb youth smoking. Using state Youth Risk Behavior Survey data, the...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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Can Fiscal Policy Stimulus Boost Economic Recovery?
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
The authors assess the role played by fiscal policy in explaining the dynamics of asset markets. Using a panel of ten industrialized countries, they show that a positive fiscal shock has a...
Provided by: Banque de France
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Effects Of Discretionary Fiscal Policy: New Empirical Evidence For Germany
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
This paper analyses the effects of discretionary fiscal policy by presenting new empirical evidence for Germany within a Structural Vector AutoRegression (SVAR) framework. Following Blanchard and...
Provided by: Leibniz Universitaet Hannover
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Tax Evasion, Welfare Fraud, And "The Broken Windows" Effect: An Experiment In Belgium, France And The Netherlands
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
In a series of experiments conducted in Belgium (Wallonia and Flanders), France and the Netherlands, the authors compare behavior regarding tax evasion and welfare dodging, with and without...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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Optimal Commodity Taxation And Redistribution Within Households
March 1, 2011 12:00am PST
Using a collective model of consumption, the authors characterize optimal commodity taxes aimed at targeting specific individuals within the household. The main message is that distortionary...
Provided by: Institute for the Study of Labor
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What Drives Fixed Asset Holding And Risk-adjusted Performance Of Corporate In China? An Empirical Analysis
February 25, 2011 12:00am PST
This paper attempts to shed light on the over-investment debate by investigating listed firms in China. Firms with higher level of fixed asset holding, higher level of overhead expenses, and being...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Entangled Financial Systems
February 21, 2011 12:00am PST
This paper analyzes counterparty risk in entangled financial systems in which banks hedge risks using a network of bilateral over-the-counter contracts. If banks have large exposures to a few...
Provided by: Boston University
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Endogenous Selection Of Comparison Groups, Human Capital Formation, And Tax Policy
February 15, 2011 12:00am PST
This paper considers a setting in which the acquisition of human capital entails a change of location in social space that causes individuals to revise their comparison groups. Skill levels are...
Provided by: Munich Personal Repec Archive
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Discussion Threads
The happiest and unhappiest cities in which to work
February 9, 2011 5:24am PST
The happiest and unhappiest cities in which to work article root Indianapolis? That makes me sad. I live here. Go to IUPUI and work on campus. I enjoy it. While there's not much room for...
53 Started by RockerGeek! | Latest comment by Sterling "chip" Camden
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What the experts think about the viability of an Internet kill switch
February 7, 2011 8:44am PST
What the experts think about the viability of an Internet kill switch article root Should the Internet be controlled? Is it even possible? I asked for answers from legislators, SMEs, and now you....
168 Started by Michael Kassner | Latest comment by bboyd@...
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Temporarily Unstable Government Debt And Inflation
February 7, 2011 12:00am PST
Many advanced economies are heading into an era of fiscal stress: populations are aging and governments have made substantially more promises of old-age benefits than they have made provisions to...
Provided by: National Bureau of Economic Research
