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THE AUTOMATED PAYMENT TRANSACTION (APT) TAX: A proposal to the President's Advisory Panel on Federal Tax Reform

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2005

I propose the replacement of our current system of individual and corporate income, sales, excise, capital gains, import and export duties, gift and estate taxes with a single comprehensive “revenue neutral” Automated Payment Transaction (APT) tax. The APT tax consists of a flat rate tax...

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UNDERGROUND ACTIVITY AND INSTITUTIONAL CHANGE: PRODUCTIVE, PROTECTIVE AND PREDATORY BEHAVIOR IN TRANSITION ECONOMIES

Feige, Edgar L. - EconWPA - 2003

clash, noncompliant behaviors proliferate, among them, tax evasion, corruption, bribery, organized criminality, and theft of …, circumvention, abuse, and/or corruption of institutional rules--comprise what we can be termed underground economies. A variety of …

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Anti-corruption programmes in post-communist transition countries and changes in the business environment, 1999-2002

Steves, Franklin; Rousso, Alan - EconWPA - 2004

This paper analyses the anti-corruption activities of 24 transition countries in the period 1999-2002. These activities … are divided into omnibus anti-corruption programmes, legislative reform aimed at tackling corruption, and adherence to … international anti-corruption conventions. The paper presents a new measure for determining the extent of anti- corruption activity …

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The Intriguing Nexus Between Corruption and Capital Account Restrictions

Dreher, Axel; Siemers, Lars-H.R. - EconWPA - 2003

The paper develops a theoretical model showing a mutual relationship between corruption and capital account … restrictions. According to the model, higher corruption induces stricter restrictions and vice versa. We test the model using panel … data for 112 countries over the period 1984-2002 and find that corruption and restrictions are indeed mutually determined …

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The Icelandic debate on the case for a fishing fee: A non- technical introduction

Matthiasson, Thorolfur - EconWPA - 2000

TResearch by J.D. Sachs and A.M. Warner, indicates that resource-rich countries are less successful in terms of economic growth than are resource-poor countries. The question of what measures Icelanders need to take to prevent their fishery wealth from limiting economic growth is posed. The main...

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Changing rules for regulation of Icelandic fisheries

Matthiasson, Thorolfur - EconWPA - 2000

From the 1950s to the mid-seventies, Iceland’s efforts in international diplomacy were largely devoted to convincing other nations that Icelanders should control and utilise the resources of the waters within 12, then 50 and finally 200 nautical miles around the island. During the last quarter...

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Commons, anti-commons, corruption and 'maffia' behavior

Canavese, Alfredo - EconWPA - 2004

institutions and corruption. A simple game theoretic model is built to show that corruption produces a tragedy of the anticommons …. It is also shown that coordinated corruption or 'maffia' behaviour produces a better use of resources than uncoordinated … corruption. …

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Governance Matters III: Governance Indicators for 1996-2002

Kaufmann, Daniel; Kraay, Aart; Mastruzzi, Massimo - EconWPA - 2003

This paper presents estimates of six dimensions of governance covering 199 countries and territories for four time periods: 1996, 1998, 2000, and 2002. These indicators are based on several hundred individual variables measuring perceptions of governance, drawn from 25 separate data sources...

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The Dark, and Independent, Side of the Italian Labour Market

Bovi, Maurizio - EconWPA - 2005

In many countries the shadow employment has a very high priority among policymakers. A new time series for this component of the labour market has been recently released by the Italian institute of statistics. Taken together they give the motivation and the occasion for a fresh analysis of the...

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Why Do Firms Hide? Bribes and Unofficial Activity after Communism

Johnson, Simon; Kaufmann, Daniel; McMillan, John; … - EconWPA - 2003

Ukraine face higher effective tax rates, worse bureaucratic corruption, greater incidence of mafia protection, and have less … corruption is significantly associated with hiding output. Ó 2000 Elsevier Science S.A. All rights reserved. …

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