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Ho, Yuen Ping; Wong, Poh Kam - EconWPA - 2005

regulatory business cost. The contribution of this paper is twofold: we compare the availability of different types of financing … in the 2002 Global Entrepreneurship Monitor, we examine the effect of availability of financing and regulatory business …-growth potential new firm formation. The availability of three types of financing sources is analysed: traditional debt financing …

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Sons of Something: Taxes, Lawsuits and Local Political Control in Sixteenth Century Castile

Drelichman, Mauricio - EconWPA - 2005

The widespread ennoblement of the Spanish bourgeoisie in the sixteenth century has been traditionally considered one of the main causes of Iberian decline. I document and quantify the surge in ennoblement through a new time series of nobility cases preserved in the Archive of the Royal Chancery...

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Do public sector reforms get rusty? An empirical analysis on privatization of solid waste collection

Bel, Germa; Costas, Anton - EconWPA - 2004

Recent empirical evidence, from countries in the European Union in particular, are much more ambiguous on the costs savings from private production of local public services than previous literature used to be. In this paper, an explanatory model of factors driving costs in solid waste collection...

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Land Taxes and Revenue Needs as Communities Grow and

Kerr, Suzi; Aitken, Andrew; Grimes, Arthur - EconWPA - 2004

New Zealand is unusual in that nearly 60% of local services are funded from property taxes. These are a mixture of land taxes, capital value taxes, annual rental value taxes and uniform general charges. We explore the efficiency and equity of this system at both national and local levels. We...

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Impact of competition policy reforms on rural and regional Australia

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2001

On 28 August 1998 the Treasurer referred the impact of competition policy reforms on rural an regional Australia for inquiry and report within 12 months of receiving the reference. The Commission is to assess the impact (both transitional and ongoing) of the competition policy and related...

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Human Capital: Infrastructural and Superstructural Constraints to Economic Performance across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

aspects of institutions are involved - infrastructure and superstructure. The paper then applies a simple model to 50 U …

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Human Capital and Income across U.S. Native American Reservations and Trust Lands

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2005

institutions are involved - infrastructure and superstructure. It develops and then applies a simple model to 50 U.S. reservation …

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Economic Performance in a Cross-Section of U.S. Native American Economies

Amavilah, Voxi Heinrich S - EconWPA - 2004

Institutions either promote or constrain economic performance, but which parts of institutions advance or restrict performance, and why do economies sharing similar institutions sometimes perform differently? This paper is a modest attempt at addressing a small part of these questions. It...

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Infrastructure and Growth in South Africa: Benchmarking, Productivity and Investment Needs, paper presented at Economic Society of South Africa (ESSA) Conference, Durban, 9/7-9/200...

Bogetic, Zeljko; Fedderke, Johannes - EconWPA - 2005

The paper provides three principal results. First, we benchmark South African infrastructure performance in terms of … base (2005). Second, we establish clear empirical links between infrastructure and productivity using South African time …

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Towards the Development of a Definitive Infrastructure Policy in

Kumar, Deepak; Nair, P - EconWPA - 2005

The Government of AP needs to rethink its Infrastructure strategy in the light of current state priority. Unless these … direction taken by the state appears to point towards the development of rural infrastructure, such as irrigation facility and …

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