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  • Who Bears the Lifetime Tax Burden?

    Debates about tax policy arise every year in Washington, and legislative changes occur almost as often. In just the past decade, corporate tax burdens were dramatically reduced and then subsequently increased. But who really bears the burden of taxation? Finding a satisfactory way to address this question remains one of the biggest challenges for economists. While much research has explored this ... Read more

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  • Distributional Effects of Environmental and Energy Policy

    Edited by Don Fullerton ...
    Series series The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy
    Many effects of environmental and energy policy are likely to disproportionately burden those with low income. First, it raises the price of fossil-fuel-intensive products that constitute a high fraction of low-income budgets (like gasoline, heating fuel and electricity). Second, the handout of pollution permits to firms provides value to those who own them. Third, low-income individuals may place ... Read more

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  • The Design and Implementation of US Climate Policy

    Series series National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
    Economic research on climate change has been crucial in advancing our understanding of the consequences associated with global warming as well as the costs and benefits of the various policies that might reduce emissions of greenhouse gases. As nations work to develop climate policies, economic insights into their design and implementation are ever more important.With a balance between theoretical ... Read more

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  • Multiple Account Benefit-Cost Analysis

    A Practical Guide for the Systematic Evaluation of Project and Policy Alternatives

    Most commonly used in economic and public policy decisions, benefit-cost analysis traditionally attempts to calculate a bottom line by assigning monetary values to all factors associated with a proposed project or action. By contrast, multiple account benefit-cost analysis recognizes that all values are complex and that not all consequences can be expressed in monetary terms or incorporated into ... Read more

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  • The Economic Analysis of Public Policy

    A critical analysis of public policy decisions requires a far greater depth of knowledge than can be received from news reports and political speeches. Issues such as how best to reduce traffic congestion, reduce acid rain, improve airline safety or develop a parcel of land are better understood by organizing, measuring and weighing the effects of alternative policies. The Economic Analysis of ... Read more

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  • Budgetary Policy Modelling

    Public Expenditures

    Series series Routledge New International Studies in Economic Modelling
    The focus of this volume is on the European context of public budget policy and a variety of different approaches are used - theoretical modelling, econometrics and applied general equilibrium modelling. Empirical evidence and case studies of European countries are contained in all the papers.The papers cover the four general themes of public budget policy:* economic stabilization, in view of the ... Read more

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  • Understanding Japanese Savings

    Does Population Aging Matter?

    by Robert Dekle ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in the Growth Economies of Asia
    Japan's savings are among the highest in the world, and these high rates have played a valuable role throughout the post-war period. However, over the next several decades, Japan's population will be ageing rapidly. Will this lower Japanese savings rates?Using up-to-date financial and demographical data, author Robert Dekle finds that the answer to this question is an emphatic 'yes'. Understanding ... Read more

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  • Can It Happen Again?

    Essays on Instability and Finance

    by Hyman Minsky ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    In the winter of 1933, the American financial and economic system collapsed. Since then economists, policy makers and financial analysts throughout the world have been haunted by the question of whether "It" can happen again. In 2008 "It" very nearly happened again as banks and mortgage lenders in the USA and beyond collapsed. The disaster sent economists, bankers and policy makers back to the ... Read more

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  • Monetary Policy and Unemployment

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    by Willi Semmler ...
    Series series Routledge International Studies in Money and Banking
    This book pulls together papers presented at a conference in honour of the 1981 Nobel Prize Winner for Economic Science, the late James Tobin. Among the contributors are Olivier Blanchard, Edmund Phelps, Charles Goodhart and Marco Buti.One of the main aims of the conference was to discuss what potential role monetary policy has on economic activity and unemployment reduction in three key currency ... Read more

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  • Essentials of Advanced Macroeconomic Theory

    by Ola Olsson ...
    Series series Routledge Advanced Texts in Economics and Finance
    Trying to summarize the essentials of macroeconomic theory in the wake of the financial crisis that has shaken not only Western economies but also the macroeconomic profession is no easy task. In particular, the notion that markets are self-correcting and always in equilibrium appears to have taken a heavy blow. However, the jury is still out on which areas should be considered as failures and ... Read more

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  • The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector

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    by William Leiss ...
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    In the past two years, the world has experienced how unsound economic practices can disrupt global economic and social order. Today’s volatile global financial situation highlights the importance of managing risk and the consequences of poor decision making.The Doom Loop in the Financial Sector reveals an underlying paradox of risk management: the better we become at assessing risks, the more we ... Read more

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