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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"commodity taxes"”.
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Three essays on taxation and public pricing
… three essays. They are "On Optimal Excise Taxes: Becker’s Household-Production Approach", "The Pricing of Public Intermediate Goods Revisited", and "Piecemeal Design and Reform of Commodity Taxes". In the first essay, Becker’s household production model is used to investigate optimal excise …
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Two Essays on Tax Evasion
… firms and heterogeneous taxpayers where linear commodity and income taxes can be evaded at a private cost and under the uncertainty of audit lotteries. We derive and provide an intuitive interpretation of a generalized: (i) 'Ramsey equation' for optimal commodity taxes, (ii) formula for the …
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Essays on taxation: positive and normative aspects
… interest earnings to be exempt from income taxes in years where the household incurs a qualified education expense. Using the 1989 and 1992 Survey of Consumer Finance data sets, a difference-in-difference methodology is used to measure how household savings has changed over time for …
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Empirical studies in public economics in developing countries
… polls. Election years have a negative effect on commodity taxes, a positive effect on capital spending, and a positive effect on road construction by public works departments. The Indian political cycle is of greater magnitude than any comparable cycle in the developed countries. In addition, …