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Rise in the underground economy creates problems for the policy-makers to formulate economic policies, especially the monetary and fiscal policies. It is found that if there was no tax evasion, budgets balance might have been zero and positive for some years and we would not have needed to...
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The income of the self-employed is often assumed to be understated in economic statistics. Controversy exists about the best method for estimating the extent of under-reporting and about the resulting measures of the size of the underground economy. This paper refines a method developed by...
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Thailand is a middle-income country with per capita income of 134,343 baht or US$3,887 in 2007.1 It was once an agrarian economy, but with the pace of development, its economy now relies more on industry and services. As a result, employment in these sectors has been increasing. With the move...
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It is common to defi ne benefi t eligibility for small business policies by restrictions on the fi rm size. This paper investigates the incentives for a large fi rm to masquerade as many small fi rms by separately incorporating business segments, focusing on the case of the Japanese value-added...
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This essay provides a game-theoretic, endogenous view of institutions, and then applies the idea to identify the … identifies different patterns of social norms of trust that were institutional complements to, or substitutes for, political …
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This essay provides a game-theoretic, endogenous view of institutions, and then applies the idea to identify the … identifies different patterns of social norms of trust that were institutional complements to, or substitutes for, political …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011278220
financial integration is taking shape, suggesting the need to strengthen existing institutions that promote Asian regionalism … suggests the need to create new institutions in support of Asian regionalism and to adopt a broad perspective in moving towards …
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financial integration is taking shape, suggesting the need to strengthen existing institutions that promote Asian regionalism … suggests the need to create new institutions in support of Asian regionalism and to adopt a broad perspective in moving towards …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653167
This study is a comprehensive, empirical analysis of the linkages between governance, institutions, and regional … infrastructure. The empirical results indicate that governance and institutions are crucial for regional infrastructure development … regions) with higher income, stronger institutions, better governance, and more open economies are likely to have higher …
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highlighted in literature : institutions and geography. However, it remains controversial as to which of these two is the more … important. The Institutions school assigns primal importance to institutions, whereas the Geography school considers … their hypotheses. It concludes in favour of the Institutions hypothesis as the Geography school does not provide a …
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