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- Aronsson, Thomas, 1963-, et al.
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Optimal taxation and risk-sharing arrangements in an economic federation
- 2003
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Ingår i: Oxford Economic Papers. - : Oxford University Press. - 0030-7653 .- 1464-3812. ; 55:1, s. 104-120
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyzes optimal taxation and risk‐sharing arrangements in an economy with two levels of government. Both levels provide public goods and finance their expenditures via labor income taxation, where the tax base is responsive to the private agents' labor supply decisions. The localities are assumed to experience different random productivity shocks, meaning that the private labor supply decision as well as the choices of income tax rates are carried out under uncertainty. Part of the central government's decision problem is then to provide tax revenue sharing between the local governments. The optimal degree of revenue sharing depends on whether or not the localities/regions differ with respect to labor supply incentives.
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- Aronsson, Thomas, 1963-, et al.
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Regional income growth and net migration in Sweden, 1970-1995
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Ingår i: Regional studies. - : Taylor & Francis Group. - 0034-3404 .- 1360-0591. ; 35:9, s. 823-830
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper concerns the regional growth pattern in Sweden, and the purpose is to analyse what factors determine the growth rate of average income and the net migration at the regional level. We find a negative relationship between the initial level of regional average income and subsequent income growth. The results also imply that the initial endowment of human capital (measured as the percentage of the population with higher education) has a positive effect on the subsequent net migration. Other determinants of regional income growth and population movements are 'fixed endowments' (related to geography and climate) and regional labour market characteristics.
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- Aronsson, Thomas, 1963-, et al.
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The Impact of regional public expenditures on the local decision to spend
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Ingår i: Regional Science and Urban Economics. - 0166-0462 .- 1879-2308. ; 30:2, s. 185-202
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper studies the hypothesis that local (municipal) expenditures in part can be explained by the expenditures of the regional (county) government. To accomplish this task, we derive and estimate a model of local public (municipal) spending that is defined conditional on the level of regional public expenditures. The empirical analysis is based on panel data from the Swedish local public sector for the time period 1981–1986. Among the results, we find that the hypothesis that regional expenditures are weakly separable from local expenditures can be rejected. However, we cannot reject the hypothesis that the regional expenditures are weakly exogenous in the local expenditure equation.
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- Aronsson, Thomas, 1963-, et al.
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Efficient taxation, wage bargaining and policy coordination
- 2004
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Ingår i: Journal of Public Economics. - : Elsevier. - 0047-2727 .- 1879-2316. ; 88:12, s. 2711-2725
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper is related to the literature on optimal nonlinear taxation under right-to-manage wage formation, and we assume that the fall-back profit facing firms during wage bargaining depends on the profit they can obtain if moving production abroad. The purpose is to study how policy coordination among countries can be used to increase the welfare level in comparison with an uncoordinated equilibrium. We consider coordinated policy reforms with respect to the marginal taxation of labor income, the unemployment benefit and the provision of a public good. The results show that policy coordination that leads to fewer hours of work per employee and/or a reduction of the unemployment benefit will increase welfare compared to the uncoordinated equilibrium.
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- Aronsson, Thomas, 1963-, et al.
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On environmental taxation under uncertain environmental damage
- 2003
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Ingår i: Environmental and Resource Economics. - : Springer. - 0924-6460 .- 1573-1502. ; 24:2, s. 183-196
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper addresses optimal taxation, when therelationship between the consumption of a`dirty' good and the resulting environmentaldamage is uncertain and treated as a randomvariable by policy makers. The main purpose isto analyze how increased uncertainty, measuredas a mean preserving increase in the spread ofthis random variable, affects the optimalcommodity tax on the dirty consumption good. Incase the only task of government is to correctthe environmental externality, and if thepreferences are characterized by nondecreasingabsolute risk aversion, we find that thecommodity tax on the dirty consumption goodincreases in response to additionaluncertainty. If, on the other hand, thegovernment provides a public good and uses alump-sum tax in addition to the commodity tax,it is possible that the commodity tax decreasesas a response to additional uncertainty, evenif the preferences are characterized bynondecreasing absolute risk aversion. A similarresult emerges, although for different reasons,if the lump-sum tax is replaced by a laborincome tax.
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- Aronsson, Thomas, 1963-, et al.
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Optimal taxation, global externalities and Labor mobility
- 2003
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Ingår i: Journal of Public Economics. - : Elsevier. - 0047-2727 .- 1879-2316. ; 87:12, s. 2749-2764
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper concerns transboundary environmental problems in the context of an optimal tax model. We assume that part of the labor force is mobile across countries, and that the set of tax instruments includes a nonlinear income tax and a commodity tax on the ‘dirty’ good that is causing damage to the environment. The purpose is to compare the (globally optimal) second best policy of a cooperative equilibrium with the policy implicit in a noncooperative equilibrium. We show that the commodity taxes differ between equilibria because of: (i) transboundary externalities not internalized by national governments, (ii) interaction effects between environmental and other policies, and (iii) labor mobility.
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- Aronsson, Thomas, 1963-, et al.
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The impact of generic drug competition on brand name market shares - evidence from micro data
- 2001
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Ingår i: Review of Industrial Organization. - : Kluwer Academic Publishers. - 0889-938X .- 1573-7160. ; 19:4, s. 423-433
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Tidskriftsartikel (refereegranskat)abstract
- This paper analyses how market shares for brand name drugs are affected by generic competition. The analysis is based on micro data for twelve different original drugs, which are all subject to generic competition. For five of these drugs, we find that the price of the original relative to the average price of the generic substitutes significantly affects the market share of the original drug. In addition, the introduction of a so called "reference price" system appears to have had a significant impact on the market shares of five original drugs.
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