Notes that, in the UK, there has been little empirical research undertaken to consider the effect of the commercial property tax (more commonly known as non-domestic rates) on the level of openly negotiated market rents. ...
Non-domestic rates are a tax that is formally levied on the occupiers of non-domestic property in the UK. A study analyzes the effects of changes to business rates on a sample of 2,964 institutionally-owned commercial ...
Walsh, Frank(Economic and Social Research Institute, 1999)
This paper examines the issue of whether harmonising taxes across the traded and nontraded sectors is desirable. Preferential treatment for the traded sector might be justified if either the output response of subsidies ...
Leahy, Dermot(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1993-12)
This paper examines positive and normative implications of tariffs in the presence of persuasive advertising. It demonstrates that protection affects imports, the domestic consumer price and the terms of trade directly and ...
We explicitly model the vertical spillovers that result from imperfections in both labour and product markets. We model the vertical spillovers from wage determination in an upstream labour market to market share performance ...
Dascher, Kristof(University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2000-05)
Typically, a small and open economy trades goods at given world prices. Here, we present a model of a very open small economy, where capital and labor are internationally mobile, too. When investing into infrastructure, ...