Airport charges and capacity expansion: effects of concessions and privatization

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Decisions on airport charges and capacity expansion made by airports with different objectives are investigated. Results suggested that allowing an airport to have profitable concession operations is more welfare improving than the alternative of depriving the airport of all profits from concession operations.

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Delaying integration of immigrant labor for the purpose of taxation

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Delayed integration (DI) is a rule for taxing migrants that requires immigrants in the host country to be taxed only after some period of transition. DI is studied in a setting that allows a trade off between efficiency costs of distortionary taxation and of wasteful government.

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How large are the welfare costs of tax competition?

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The magnitude of welfare costs of capital tax competition among regional governments is calculated. Assumptions of this model are welfare-maximizing and Leviathan behavior by governments, an upward sloping capital supply curve, and non-competitive government behavior.

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