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DO AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES REDUCE THE SENSITIVITY OF FIRM LOCATION TO TAX DIFFERENTIALS?

by Marius Brülhart Mario Jametti Kurt Schmidheiny Published in The Economic journal (London) (01.09.2012)

“...Recent theoretical work in economic geography has shown that agglomeration forces can mitigate 'race-to-the-bottom' tax competition, by partly or fully...”

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Electoral Competition as a Determinant of Fiscal Decentralisation

by Jametti, Mario Joanis, Marcelin Published in Fiscal studies (01.06.2016)

“...This paper estimates the effect of government electoral strength on fiscal decentralisation. Using a panel of democracies, we find that greater government...”

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PENSION BENEFIT INSURANCE AND PENSION PLAN PORTFOLIO CHOICE

by Thomas Crossley Mario Jametti Published in The review of economics and statistics (01.03.2013)

“...Pension benefit guarantees have been introduced in several countries to protect private plan members from the loss of income associated with the termination of...”

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Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Benefit Guarantee Insurance: An Overview of Theory and Evidence

by Mario Jametti Published in Canadian public policy (01.11.2008)

“...Dans cet article, je passe en revue la littérature disponible sur les régimes de retraite à prestations déterminées, en m'attardant plus particulièrement à...”

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Highway to Economic Growth? Competition in Public Works Tenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo

by Galletta, Sergio Jametti, Mario Redonda, Agustin Published in The South African Journal of economics (01.06.2015)

“...The Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) is one of the poorest countries in the world. The construction sector will play an essential part to bring the country...”

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Risk Selection in Natural-Disaster Insurance

by von Ungern-Sternberg, Thomas Jametti, Mario Published in Journal of institutional and theoretical economics (01.06.2010)

“...It is widely recognized that market failure prevents efficient risk sharing in natural-disaster insurance, leading to several public-private partnership...”

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TAX COMPETITION AND DIRECT DEMOCRACY IN LOCAL PUBLIC FINANCE - EMPIRICAL WORK ON SWITZERLAND

by Mario Jametti Published in DICE report (01.04.2014)

“...This paper offers an overview of work in two areas of great importance in local public finance: tax competition and direct democracy. Tax competition at the...”

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How to tame two Leviathans? Revisiting the effect of direct democracy on local public expenditure in a federation

by Galletta, Sergio Jametti, Mario Published in European Journal of Political Economy (01.09.2015)

“...We explore how the presence of direct democracy across hierarchical levels of government in a federation affects the level of public expenditure. In so doing...”

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Does tax competition tame the Leviathan?

by Brülhart, Marius Jametti, Mario Published in Journal of public economics (01.09.2019)

“...We study the impact of tax competition on equilibrium taxes and welfare, focusing on the jurisdictional fragmentation of federations. In a representative-agent...”

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Assessing the Efficiency of an Insurance Provider—A Measurement Error Approach

by MARIO JAMETTI THOMAS VON UNGERN-STERNBERG Published in The Geneva risk and insurance review (01.06.2005)

“...The purpose of this paper is to compare the cost efficiency of private and public property insurance providers in Switzerland. The most commonly used measure...”

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Vertical versus horizontal tax externalities: An empirical test

by Brülhart, Marius Jametti, Mario Published in Journal of public economics (2006)

“...We study taxation externalities in federations of benevolent governments. Where different hierarchical government levels tax the same base, one can observe two...”

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Underfunding of Defined Benefit Pension Plans and Benefit Guarantee Insurance - An Overview of Theory and Empirics

by Jametti, Mario
01.05.2007

“...We review the theoretical literature on defined benefit (DB) pension plans, particularly focusing on the issue of plan underfunding and benefit guarantee...”

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