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Alternative Distributions for Inequality and Poverty Comparisons

Creedy, John (2013)

This paper provides an introductory review of the alternative possible income distributions which can be used when making cross-sectional evaluations of the effects of taxes and transfers using a household economic survey. ...
An Analysis of Benefit Flows in New Zealand using a Social Accounting Framework

Aziz, Omar; Carroll, Nick; Creedy, John (2013)

This paper presents a social accounting model to examine the entrants, exits and transitions of individuals among a wide range of benefit categories in New Zealand. Transition rates and flows are estimated separately for ...
The Atkinson Inequality Measure and Inequality Aversion

Creedy, John (2019)

This paper examines the precise way in which the Atkinson inequality measures varies as inequality aversion increases. The aim is to investigate whether precise conditions can be obtained under which a tax reform might be ...
Average Marginal Income Tax Rates in New Zealand, 1907-2009

Bandyopadhyay, Debasis; Barro, Robert; Couchman, Jeremy; Gemmell, Norman; Liao, Gordon; McAlister, Fiona (2012)

Estimates of marginal tax rates (MTRs) faced by individual economic agents, and for various aggregates of taxpayers, are important for economists testing behavioural responses to changes in those tax rates. This paper ...
Can Automatic Tax Increases Pay for the Public Spending Effects of Population Ageing in New Zealand?

Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman (2013)

This paper examines the extent to which projected aggregate tax revenue changes, association with population ageing over the next 50 years, can be expected to finance expected increases in social welfare expenditures. ...
Comparing Income Distributions Using Atkinson’s Measure of Inequality

Creedy, John (2021)

This paper is aimed at undergraduate and graduate economics students, and public sector economists, who are interested in inequality measurement. It examines the use of the Atkinson inequality measure to compare income ...
Complementarity in Models of Public Finance and Endogenous Growth

Misch, Florian; Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard (2014)

This paper considers the effects of complementarity in private production between private and public inputs on optimal fiscal policy under the objective of growth maximization. Using an endogenous growth model with public ...
The Composition of Government Expenditure with Alternative Choice Mechanisms

Creedy, John; Moslehi, Solmaz (2012)

This paper investigates the choice of the composition of government expenditure using both positive and normative approaches. The former involves aggregation over selfish voters (simple majority voting and stochastic voting ...
Constructing a Longitudinal Database for the Analysis of Individual Incomes in New Zealand

Alinaghi, Nazila; Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman (2020)

This paper describes the construction of a unique longitudinal individual-level dataset that allows the dynamics of individual incomes in New Zealand to be examined. The data are obtained from the New Zealand Integrated ...
Corporate Taxation and Productivity Catch-Up: Evidence from European firms

Gemmell, Norman; Kneller, Richard; McGowan, Danny; Sanz, Ismael; Sanz-Sanz, José F. (2013)

Firms that lie far behind the technological frontier have the most to gain from imitating the technology or management practices of others. That some firms converge relatively slowly to the productivity frontier suggests ...
Debt Projections and Fiscal Sustainability with Feedback Effects

Creedy, John; Scobie, Grant (2015)

This paper analyses long-term fiscal sustainability with a model which incorporates a number of feedback effects. When fiscal policy responds to ensure long-term sustainability, these feedback effects can potentially modify ...
Decomposing Inequality and Social Welfare Changes: The Use of Alternative Welfare Metrics

Creedy, John; Hérault, Nicolas (2012)

This paper presents two ‘non-welfarist’ approaches and one ‘welfarist’ approach to decompose changes in inequality and social welfare into three components: population, tax policy and labour supply effects. As an illustration, ...
Designing Direct Tax Reforms: Alternative Approaches

Alinaghi, Nazila; Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman (2020)

How high should the top personal income tax rate be? Is there an `optimal' structure of tax rates and thresholds? Despite numerous value judgements being required to answer such questions, this paper suggests that 'rational ...
Determinants of the Spanish housing market over three decades and three booms: Long run supply and demand elasticities

Arrazola, María; de Hevia, José; Romero, Desiderio; Sanz-Sanz, José Félix (2014)

This paper offers a quantitative analysis of housing supply and demand in Spain. To this end, it formulates a model in line with the traditional models of the literature. Using Spanish data for the period 1975 to 2009, ...
Did tax-transfer policy change New Zealand disposable income inequality between 1988 and 2013?

Nolan, Matt (2018)

This paper investigates the role tax and transfer policies changes played in the increase in disposable income inequality over the 1988-2013 period. Utilising the Household Economic Survey (HES) and a behavioural microsimulation ...
The 'Disciplinary Effect' of the Performance-based Research Fund Process in New Zealand

Buckle, Robert A.; Creedy, John (2019)

This paper examines how the research quality of academic disciplines within New Zealand universities has evolved since the first Performance-based Research Fund (PBRF) assessment in 2003. The analysis uses a database ...
Distributional Comparisons Using the Gini Inequality Measure

Creedy, John (2021)

This paper is aimed at undergraduate and graduate economics students, and public sector economists, who are interested in inequality measurement. It examines the use of the Gini inequality measure to compare income ...
The Distributional Effects of Consumption Taxes in New Zealand

Thomas, Alastair (2015)

This paper investigates the distributional effects of the GST in New Zealand, and the case for the introduction of reduced rates to address distributional concerns. The analysis is based on a consumption tax micro-simulation ...
The Distribution of Income and Fiscal Incidence by Age and Gender: Some Evidence from New Zealand

Aziz, Omar; Gemmell, Norman; Laws, Athene (2013)

This paper examines the age and gender dimensions of income distribution and fiscal incidence in New Zealand using Household Expenditure Survey (HES) data for 2010 and a non-behavioural micro-simulation model. Since many ...
Do Couples Bunch More? Evidence from Partnered and Single Taxpayers in New Zealand

Alinaghi, Nazila; Creedy, John; Gemmell, Norman (2020)

Recent papers hypothesise that estimates of the elasticity of taxable income (ETI) for individuals may be biased where those individuals are taxed separately but are part of a couple family. This paper investigates that ...