Search Results - subject:"State Capacity"

Performative State Capacity and Climate (In)Action

Feld, Immanuel; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024

Climate action requires significant public- and private sector investment to achieve meaningful reductions in carbon emissions. This paper documents that large-scale austerity, coupled with barriers to flows of data and a lack of (digital) skills in (local) government, may have been a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534280

Informational Boundaries of the State

Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity – by, for instance … state capacity falls short, especially since cross-country empirical evidence suggests that similar levels of fiscal … shortcomings of the conventional view is to account for a crucial and largely ignored boundary of the state or dimension of state …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014534301

Leveraging data to improve tax compliance for micro and small firms: Evidence from Brazil

Motta Cafe, Renata; Yarygina, Anastasiya; Escalante, Lisseth - 2024

A large body of research has estimated the effects on tax collection of informing taxpayers of their obligations. This paper examines the effects on voluntary tax payments of providing taxpayers with information on their obligations that is collected through massive information cross-checking...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014564025

Performative state capacity and climate (in)action

Feld, Immanuel; Fetzer, Thiemo - 2024

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014513224

Informational boundaries of the state

Fetzer, Thiemo; Shaw, Callum; Edenhofer, Jacob - 2024

Formal conceptions of state capacity have mostly focused on indirect measures of state capacity - by, for instance … state capacity falls short, especially since cross-country empirical evidence suggests that similar levels of fiscal … shortcomings of the conventional view is to account for a crucial and largely ignored boundary of the state or dimension of state …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014513234