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Corruption, seigniorage and growth : theory and evidence
Blackburn, Keith (contributor);  … - 2008
This paper presents an analysis of the effect of bureaucratic corruption on economic growth through a public finance …. Corruption takes the form of the embezzlement of public funds, the effect of which is to increase the government's reliance on … of the government's budget constraint, we find strong evidence to support these predictions under different estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003748210
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How productive is public capital? : a meta-analysis
Bom, Pedro R. D. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003630854
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The fiscal effect of immigration : reducing bias in influential estimates
Clemens, Michael A. - 2021
Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants' skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cash-flow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012697117
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Incentive effects of fiscal rules on the finance minister's behaviour : evidence from revenue projections in Swiss cantons
Chatagny, Florian - 2015
Predicting available tax revenue accurately is a key step of fiscal policy. It has recently been shown that revenue projection errors have a direct impact on fiscal deficits. In this paper, we explore the relationship between the ideology of the finance minister and tax revenue projection...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010483576
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The private and fiscal returns to schooling and the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education : a general framework and some results for the EU
Fuente, Ángel de la (contributor);  … - 2005
This paper develops a comprehensive framework for the quantitative analysis of the private and fiscal returns to schooling and of the effect of public policies on private incentives to invest in education. This framework is applied to 14 member states of the European Union. For each of these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002577038
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Gathering support for green tax reform : evidence from German household surveys
Ploeg, Frederick van der; Rezai, Armon; Tovar, Miguel - 2021
Green tax reform is unpopular because, typically, the poor are hurt most by the higher prices of carbon-intensive commodities. If revenues from a carbon tax are recycled, it may be feasible to gain popular support for green tax reform. To investigate this, we estimate an EASI demand system from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012668336
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A tax on tax revenue : the incentive effects of equalizing transfers ; evidence from Germany
Huber, Bernd; Baretti, Christian; Lichtblau, Karl - 2000
Several recent studies suggest that equalizing transfers in a federal system may distort the tax policy decisions of states. We study this issue for the German federal fiscal system. In a simple theoretical model, we first identify a substitution and an income effect of equalizing transfers. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781611
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The impact of declining oil rents on tax revenues : does the shadow economy matter?
Ishak, Phoebe W.; Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2020 - This version: 17.02.2020
We study the association between oil rents and tax revenues, highlighting the importance of the shadow economy as a mediating factor. We present a simple theoretical model demonstrating that decreasing oil rents are likely to be positively associated with the tax revenues in a country with a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012171685
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Persistence in tax revenues : evidence from some OECD countries
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Tapia, Silvia García; … - 2023
This paper examines persistence in tax revenues in a set of 21 OECD countries over the period 1965-2021 using long-range dependence techniques based on fractional integration. The results imply that there are only a few cases of mean reversion: one for total revenue (Switzerland); three for VAT...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014382942
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The effect of public corruption on Covid-19 fatality rate : a cross-country examination
Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021
This paper evaluates whether the level of public corruption influences COVID-19 case fatality rates. Using cross …-section data, including 64 countries and multiple regression techniques, we find that the level of corruption is positively and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012486422