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Harassment, corruption and economic policy

Marjit, Sugata; Mukherjee, Vivekananda; Mukherjee, Arijit - 1999

This paper introduces harassment in a model of bribery and corruption. We characterize the harassment equilibrium and show that taxpayers with all possible levels of income participate in such an equilibrium. Harassment has a regressive bias. Harassment cost as such may not affect tax revenue....

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Growth gains from trade

Marjit, Sugata; Basu, Anwesha; Veeramani, C. - 2019 - This Draft: October, 2019

in explaining growth gains from trade. Using sectoral level data from WORLD KLEMS Database on industrial productivity and …

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Persistence in the market risk premium : evidence across countries

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A.; … - 2020

This paper provides evidence on the degree of persistence of one of the key components of the CAPM, namely the market risk premium, as well as its volatility. The analysis applies fractional integration methods to data for the US, Germany and Japan, and for robustness purposes considers...

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The golden hello and political transitions

Aidt, Toke; Albornoz, Facundo; Gassebner, Martin - 2012

have taken place. We test this unexplored implication of the theory empirically. We find in a world sample from 1970 to …We analyze the influence of IMF and World Bank programs on political regime transitions. We develop an extended version … transitions ; democracy ; autocracy ; IMF ; World Bank …

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Inequality, structure of production and international trade : the role of credit market imperfection

Beladi, Hamid; Marjit, Sugata; Misra, Suryaprakash - 2017

Credit rationing in the presence of asset inequality affects production and trade pattern in this paper, but not in the conventional way. A Ricardian general equilibrium framework with heterogeneous levels of asset ownership is developed to show that more equal asset distribution may contract...

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Specifying human capital : a review, some extensions, and development effects

Woessmann, Ludger - 2000

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Measuring persistence of the world population : a fractional integration approach

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Infante, Juan; Rio, Marta del; … - 2023

world population over the period 1800-2016. The analysis is carried out for the original series, and also for its log …

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Second thoughts on development accounting

Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Woessmann, Ludger - 1998

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Which school systems sort weaker students into smaller classes? : international evidence

West, Martin R.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2003

We examine whether the sorting of differently achieving students into differently sized classes results in a regressive or compensatory pattern of class sizes for a sample of national school systems. Sorting effects are identified by subtracting the causal effect of class size on performance...

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What accounts for international differences in student performance? : a re-examination using PISA data

Fuchs, Thomas; Woessmann, Ludger - 2004

We use the PISA student-level achievement database to estimate international education production functions. Student characteristics, family backgrounds, home inputs, resources, teachers and institutions are all significantly related to math, science and reading achievement. Our models account...

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