In this study we investigate the economic effects of carbon taxes on the Russian economy. The main findings of this study are the following: an introduction of carbon taxes compensated by an increase in lump-sum subsidies may weak the Russian economy through higher energy costs. Moreover, such an environmental tax reform could induce Dutch disease in Russia because of increases in the domestic ...

This paper presents a simple New-Keynesian small open economy model allowing for labour to be supplied both domestically and abroad with a locational preference to work at home rather than abroad. From this small change in the otherwise standard setup follows an important implication for the Phillips-curve: The opening of the "labour account" reduces the output-in‡ation trade-o¤, i.e. the Phill...

The World Bank’s ‘Doing Business’ survey seeks to measure and compare the costs to business of various types of regulation, including labour regulation. As such it is an important driver of labour market ‘reform’ globally and in South Africa. It may also be encouraging a tendency of different systems of regulation to converge. Focussing on labour regulation, the study considers the validity of ...