Browsing Interdisciplinary Centres & Research Groups by Subject "H2"

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Concentration curves, inequality and tax reform

Madden, David (David Patrick) (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 1995)

This paper applies the concept of welfare dominance using concentration curves to household data for Ireland. It identifies marginal tax reforms which would be welfare-enhancing for all social welfare functions satisfying ...
The silver lining of red tape

Davies, Ronald B. (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2010-05)

An increasing number of international agreements require “nondiscrimination” from their participants, i.e. the government of one country cannot treat foreign firms differently from domestic firms. This is at odds with a ...
Tax competition in an expanding European Union

Davies, Ronald B. ; Voget, Johannes (University College Dublin. School of Economics, 2008-11)

This paper empirically examines whether expansion of the EU has increased international tax competition. To do so, we use a simple model of tax competition to determine how a given country weights the taxes of others ...