Tax Mimicking and Sub-National Entities : Evidence at the Municipal Level for Montreal, 2000 ?

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Upper Semicontinuous Extensions of Binary Relations.

Suzumura shows that a binary relation has a weak order extension if and only if it is consistent. However, consistency is demonstrably not sufficient to extend an upper semi-continuous binary relation to an upper semicontinuous weak order. Jaffray proves that any asymmetric (or reflexive), transitive and upper semicontinuous binary relation has an upper semicontinuous strict (or weak) order extension. We provide sufficient conditions for existence of upper semicontinuous extensions of consistence rather than transitive relations. For asymmetric relations, consistency and upper semicontinuity suffice. For more general relations, we prove one theorem using a further consistency property and another with an additional continuity requirement.

Political Influence, Economic Interests and Endogenous Tax Structure in a Computable Equilibrium Framework: with Applicatioon to the United States, 1973 and 1983

A full understanding of public affairs requires the ability to distinguish between the policies that voters would like the government to adopt, and the influence that different voters or group of voters actually exert in the democratic process. We consider the properties of a computable equilibrium model of a competitive political economy in which the economic interests of groups of voters and their effective influence on equilibrium policy outcomes can be explicitly distinguished and computed. The model incorporates an amended version of the GEMTAP tax model, and is calibrated to data for the United States for 1973 and 1983. Emphasis is placed on how the aggregation of GEMTAP households into groups within which economic and political behaviour is assumed homogeneous affects the numerical representation of interests and influence for representative members of each group. Experiments with the model suggest that the changes in both interests and influence are important parts of the story behind the evolution of U.S. tax policy in the decade after 1973.

Distortionary Taxation and Labor Supply: Evidence from Canada.

This paper examines empirically the effects of distortionary taxation on labor supply using a general equilibrium framework. The long-term relations predicted by the model are derived and tested using Canadian data between 1966 and 1993. While the cointegrating predictions of the model without taxation are rejected, the ones of the model with labor taxation are not. Persistent labor tax rate increases appear to play an important role in the observed downward trend in hours worked.

Consistent Relations

Consistency, a natural weakening of transitivity introduced in a seminal contribution by Suzumura (1976b), has turned out to be an interesting and promising concept in a variety of areas within economic theory. This paper summarizes its recent applications and provides some new observations in welfarist social choice and in population ethics. In particular, it is shown that the conclusion of the welfarism theorem remains true if transitivity is replaced by consistency and that an impossibility result in variable-population social-choice theory turns into a possibility if transitivity is weakened to consistency.

Les relations verticales gerees par des contrats, etude theorique et application au contrat d'electricite entre Norsk-Hydro Canada Inc. et Hydro Quebec..

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La dimension juridique des relations entre Samuel de Champlain et les Autochtones de la Nouvelle-France

Contrairement à ce qui s’est produit dans les colonies espagnoles, en Nouvelle-Fance, les Français ont privilégié le maintien de relations pacifiques avec les peuples autochtones. Même si les représentants de la couronne sont autorisés à les assujettir par la force, très rapidement, le roi exige le respect des traités conclus avec eux. Ces alliances constituent d’ailleurs la première étape d’un processus de sédentarisation et de conversion qui doit, dans l’esprit des autorités, culminer par l’assujettissement des Autochtones à la couronne. Pour l’heure, au début du XVIIe siècle, ils sont considérés comme des alliés vivant selon leurs propres coutumes. C’est pourquoi Champlain doit renoncer à appliquer le droit français dans les cas où un Français a été tué par un Autochtone, alors qu’il n’envisage même pas d’imposer ces règles quand les protagonistes sont tous autochtones.