1. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Policy innovation in local jurisdictions: Testing for neighbourhood influence in school choice policies

    Before making difficult decisions, individuals tend to collect information on decision makers in reference groups. With respect to policy innovations in a decentralized public sector, this may give rise to…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Collective models of household labour supply with non-convex budget sets and non-participation: a calibration approach

    further co-authors: Michal Myck, Javier Ruiz-Castillo. We present a procedure to compare the collective and unitary models of household labor supply, focusing on tax reform analysis. The procedure entails…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Who receives the money matters: simulating the Working Families' Tax Credit in the UK and some European tax reforms

    further co-authors: Nicolas Moreau, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen A framework for simplified implementation of the collective model of labor supply decisions is presented in the context of…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Evaluating the move to a linear tax system in Germany and other European countries: the choice of the representation of household decision processes does matter

    further co-authors: Michal Myck, Javier Ruiz-Castillo and Frederic Vermeulen. We compare the collective and unitary models with regard to the analysis of tax reforms. A unitary model is estimated on micro…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2006

    Additionality of Public R&D Grants in a Transition Economy: The Case of Eastern Germany

    This paper examines the input and output additionality of public R&D subsidies in Western and Eastern Germany. We estimate the impact of public R&D grants on firms' R&D and innovation input. Based on the results…