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Does Better Information Curb Customs Fraud?

Chalendard, Cyril; Duhaut, Alice; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2020

helps curb customs fraud, but its effectiveness appears compromised by corruption. …

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Does Better Information Curb Customs Fraud?

Chalendard, Cyril - 2020

helps curb customs fraud, but its effectiveness appears compromised by corruption …

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Corruption in Customs

Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana Margarida; Raballand, … - 2021

This paper presents a new methodology to detect corruption in customs and applies it to Madagascar's main port … the approach, but also triggered a novel manifestation of manipulation that rejuvenated systemic corruption. Tax revenue … losses associated with the corruption scheme are approximately 3 percent of total taxes collected and highly concentrated …

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Containing Tariff Evasion

Anne, Clement; Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana; … - 2023

To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies between exporters and importers are prevalent but small, with over two-fifths of importers...

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Elite capture of foreign aid : evidence from offshore bank accounts

Andersen, Jørgen Juel; Johannesen, Niels; Rijkers, Bob - 2020

Do elites capture foreign aid? This paper documents that aid disbursements to highly aid-dependent countries coincide with sharp increases in bank deposits in offshore financial centers known for bank secrecy and private wealth management, but not in other financial centers. The estimates are...

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Heterogeneity in subjective wellbeing : an application to occupational allocation in Africa

Falco, Paolo; Maloney, William F.; Rijkers, Bob; … - 2012

Using an extraordinarily rich panel dataset from Ghana, this paper explores the nature of self-employment and informality in developing countries through the analysis of self-reported happiness with work and life. Subjective job satisfaction measures allow assessment of the relative desirability...

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Political connections and tariff evasion : evidence from Tunisia

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Deals and delays : firm-level evidence on corruption and policy implementation times

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Does democratization promote competition? : Indonesian manufacturing pre and post Suharto

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Kochanova, Anna; Rijkers, Bob - 2020

Does democratization promote economic competition? This paper documents that the disruption of political connections associated with Suharto's fall had a modest pro-competitive effect on Indonesian manufacturing industries in which his family had extensive business interests. Firms with...

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Corruption in Customs

Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana M.; Raballand, Gaël; … - 2022

This paper presents a new methodology to detect corruption in customs and applies it to Madagascar’s main port … the approach, but also triggered a novel manifestation of manipulation that rejuvenated systemic corruption. Tax revenue … losses associated with the corruption scheme are approximately 3 percent of total taxes collected and highly concentrated …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013309018