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Many countries apply lower fines to tax evading individuals when they voluntarily disclose the tax evasion they committed. I model such voluntary disclosure mechanisms theoretically and show that while such mechanisms increase the incentive to evade taxes, they nevertheless increase tax revenues...
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This paper reviews the history of executive compensation disclosure and other government policies affecting CEO pay, and as well surveys the literature on the effects of these policies. Disclosure has increased nearly uniformly since 1933. A number of other regulations, including special taxes...
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Firms constantly face new and more stringent tax disclosure requirements and, increasingly, paying a fair share of tax is seen as part of corporate social responsibility. In this paper, we investigate whether mandating qualitative tax disclosure leads to intended outcomes, using, as an exogenous...
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This paper investigates the effects on tacit collusion of increased market transparency on the consumer side of a … market in a differentiated Hotelling duopoly. Increasing market transparency increases the benefits to a firm from … sustain. In the limiting homogeneous market, the effect vanishes. Here market transparency does not affect the possibilities …
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We use a change in the voting procedures of one of the two chambers of the Swiss parliament to explore how transparency …
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status of NGO activism and the appropriate degree of transparency. …
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This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of …
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We examine "Forward Guidance Contracts", which make central bankers' utility contingent on the precision of interest-rate forecasts for some time. Such Forward Guidance Contracts are a exible commitment device and can improve economic performance when the economy is stuck in a liquidity trap....
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-and-mortar stores. Using data collected before and after a transparency regulation went into effect in the Israeli food retail market … in price dispersion and a 4% to 5% drop in prices following the transparency regulation. The price drop varied across …
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in the host countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other hand, host-country relative corporate-transparency diminishes the …
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