Theory recommends aligning the tax treatment of debt and equity. A few countries, notably Belgium, have introduced an …

the credit channel via the financial accelerator mechanism. The results show that tax evasion is pro cyclical and …

In U.S. data 1981–2012, unsecured firm credit moves procyclically and tends to lead GDP, while secured firm credit is … acyclical; similarly, shocks to unsecured firm credit explain a far larger fraction of output fluctuations than shocks to … secured credit. In this paper we develop a tractable dynamic general equilibrium model in which unsecured firm credit arises …

In higher education, pure credit market funding leads to underinvestment due to insufficient risk pooling, while pure … credit markets coexist alongside income-contingent loan funding – might restore efficiency of the educational investment … and, under some condition, leads to higher social welfare than pure credit market funding. If combined with a policy that …

This paper examines the effects of Islamic banking on the causal linkages between credit and GDP by comparing two sets … analysis provides evidence of long-run causality running from credit to GDP in countries with Islamic banks only. This is …