Jonathan E LEIGHTNER
Biographic Data
| ID | 6290194 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jonathan E LEIGHTNER |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jonathan E |
| FAMILY NAME | LEIGHTNER |
| SIGNATURE | LEIGHTNER J E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hull College |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5315-2903 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tax policy, social inequality and growth
The effects of social inequality usually include income inequality. Income inequality is augmented or reduced by tax policies. This paper finds empirical evidence that shifting the tax burden from the socially disadvantaged to the socially advantaged would cause gross domestic product (GDP) to rise. Specifically, this paper uses Reiterative Truncated Projected Least Squares – a regression technique that produces reduced-form estimates while solvi…
Alternative Property Systems for China
Returns to Market Power in Financial Institutions
The strong positive relationship between firm profits and size for Thai financial institutions cannot be explained by returns to scale or scope. Evidence for this statement is found by applying both production frontier and function techniques and different model specifications on data covering 1991 to 1995 for Thai banks and finance & securities companies. Increasing returns to market power is the only way to explain the Thai data. A firm enjoys …
The Domestic Effects of Tight Monetary Policy in the Wake of Thailand's Financial Crisis
One of the most contentious and important questions remaining about Asia's financial crisis is whether or not the policies advocated by the IMF were excessively severe, causing an unnecessary degree of damage to the domestic economies of Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand. In Thailand, the country examined in this paper, the conditions for the IMF loan of August 1997 included the Thai government allowing weak financial firms to fail and impleme…
The compatibility of growth and increased equality
If greater inequality results in greater saving which leads to greater investment and growth, then government policies which increase inequality promote growth; this is called the anti‐equality argument. If, however, greater equality produces more consumption which drives investment and growth, then increasing equality produces growth; this is the pro‐equality argument. This essay tests the assumptions behind the anti‐ and pro‐equality arguments.…
Returns to Market Power in Financial Institutions
The strong positive relationship between firm profits and size for Thai financial institutions cannot be explained by returns to scale or scope. Evidence for this statement is found by applying both production frontier and function techniques and different model specifications on data covering 1991 to 1995 for Thai banks and finance & securities companies. Increasing returns to market power is the only way to explain the Thai data. A firm enjoys …
The compatibility of growth and increased equality
If greater inequality results in greater saving which leads to greater investment and growth, then government policies which increase inequality promote growth; this is called the anti‐equality argument. If, however, greater equality produces more consumption which drives investment and growth, then increasing equality produces growth; this is the pro‐equality argument. This essay tests the assumptions behind the anti‐ and pro‐equality arguments.…
The Domestic Effects of Tight Monetary Policy in the Wake of Thailand's Financial Crisis
One of the most contentious and important questions remaining about Asia's financial crisis is whether or not the policies advocated by the IMF were excessively severe, causing an unnecessary degree of damage to the domestic economies of Indonesia, South Korea, and Thailand. In Thailand, the country examined in this paper, the conditions for the IMF loan of August 1997 included the Thai government allowing weak financial firms to fail and impleme…
Returns to Market Power in Financial Institutions
The strong positive relationship between firm profits and size for Thai financial institutions cannot be explained by returns to scale or scope. Evidence for this statement is found by applying both production frontier and function techniques and different model specifications on data covering 1991 to 1995 for Thai banks and finance & securities companies. Increasing returns to market power is the only way to explain the Thai data. A firm enjoys …
Alternative Property Systems for China
Tax policy, social inequality and growth
The effects of social inequality usually include income inequality. Income inequality is augmented or reduced by tax policies. This paper finds empirical evidence that shifting the tax burden from the socially disadvantaged to the socially advantaged would cause gross domestic product (GDP) to rise. Specifically, this paper uses Reiterative Truncated Projected Least Squares – a regression technique that produces reduced-form estimates while solvi…
Economics (5 works) · Macroeconomics (3 works) · Banking stability, regulation, efficiency (2 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (2 works) · Inequality (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Monetary economics (2 works) · Political science (2 works) · Public economics (2 works) · Ad valorem tax (1 work)