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Exemption or illusion? The impact of a youth tax policy on house asking prices in Portugal
Real Estate Economics, EarlyView.Abstract Affordable housing has become an increasing challenge for young individuals in Portugal, where rising house prices and precarious employment conditions hinder homeownership. To address this barrier, the Portuguese Government introduced a tax exemption for individuals under 35 purchasing their first home.
Luís Clemente‐Casinhas, Sofia Vale
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On the Controversy of Fiscal Equalization in Germany [PDF]
The paper discusses the features of fiscal equalization in Germany and its recent challenges, notably those related to re-unification. It analyzes its distributional effects of the Finanzausgleich, which are found to be strong, sometimes even reversing ...
Spahn, Paul Bernd
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The Political Economy of Patent Buyouts
The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Incentivizing innovation through buyouts may alleviate the social costs associated with patent power, but the political economy and feasibility of this potentially important financing mechanism have been understudied. We study an international setting of countries with different innovation and financing capabilities, and where financing ...
Amal Ahmad +2 more
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Canada’s Equalization Formula: Peering Inside the Black Box.. and Beyond
The School of Public Policy Publications, 2014 Ontario only started receiving equalization payments, for the first time in its history, in 2009. As soon as Ontario slipped into that “have-not” status, the federal government imposed a cap on the growth of equalization payouts. That led to substantial
Jim Feehan
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Public Good Provision in a Federalist Country: Tiebout Competition, Fiscal Equalization, and Incentives for Efficiency in Switzerland [PDF]
The purpose of this paper is twofold. First, it measures the efficiency in the provision of public goods by local jurisdictions applying Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA).
Peter Zweifel, Philippe K. Widmer
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The RAND Journal of Economics, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Biased recommendations arise naturally in markets with heterogeneous consumers. We study a model in which a monopolist offers an experience good to a population of consumers with heterogeneous tastes and makes personalized purchase recommendations.
Martin Peitz, Anton Sobolev
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Efficient Revenue Sharing and Upper Level Governments: Theory and Application to Germany [PDF]
Recent literature has emphasized that redistributive grant systems may tend to internalize fiscal externalities arising from tax competition. This paper further explores the conditions under which local grant systems enforced by the state government will
Buettner, Thiess +2 more
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Global Policy, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Starting with the Facebook‐Cambridge Analytica scandal and its link to Brexit and the 2016 US elections, the nexus among online political advertising, micro‐targeting, and data‐driven electoral campaigning has revealed its disruptive potential for democracies.
Enea Fiore +2 more
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Globalization, Tax Competition and Fiscal Equalization [PDF]
, 2004 Recent empirical evidences suggest that the economic globalization has likely favored the emergence of harmful tax competition among major industrialized countries. This paper analyzes the ability of Öscal equalization to weaken the international tax competition when the economies are not perfectly integrated and the private sector is imperfectly ...
Riou, Stéphane, Gaigne, Carl
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Animal Conservation, EarlyView.Identifying the most effective criterion to assess the conservation status of vulnerable species in threatened tropical regions is crucial to evaluate recovery plans. We investigated the influence of environmental heterogeneity on the extent of occurrence (EOO), area of occupied habitat (AOH), and density variation of two Amazonian riparian frog ...
Rafael F. Jorge +3 more
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