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Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Krieger, Tim - 2018 - This version: January 2018

We study the short and long run responses of income inequality to positive per capita oil and gas rent shocks in Iran … and statistically significant response of income inequality to oil rent booms within 4 years of the shock. In addition … per capita leads to an approximately 1.4-percent increase in income inequality. The results are robust to controlling for …

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Educational inequality and public policy preferences : evidence from representative survey experiments

Lergetporer, Philipp; Werner, Katharina; Woessmann, Ludger - 2018

To study how information about educational inequality affects public concerns and policy preferences, we devise survey … experiments in representative samples of the German population. Providing information about the extent of educational inequality … strongly increases concerns about educational inequality but only slightly affects support for equity-oriented education …

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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...

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Where are the rent seekers?

Hillman, Arye L.; Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2016

In a remarkably simple and yet in one of the most original and insightful observations of 20th century economics, Gordon Tullock observed that there are efficiency losses when public policies and political behavior create contestable rents. Tullock also observed that social losses from...

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Direct distribution of rents and the resource curse in Iran : a micro-econometric analysis

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza; Habibpour, Mohammad - 2014

Our goal is to examine the income inequality and welfare effects of the direct distribution of resource rents and … rents-induced inequality. …

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Social capital and the spread of Covid-19 : insights from European countries

Bartscher, Alina Kristin; Seitz, Sebastian; Siegloch, … - 2020

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one standard deviation increase in social capital leads to...

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Beyond the veil of ignorance : the influence of direct democracy on the shadow economy

Schneider, Friedrich; Teobaldelli, Désirée - 2012

In this paper we analyze the influence of direct democratic institutions on the size and development of the shadow economies. The framework developed predicts a negative relationship between the degree of direct democracy and the size of the shadow economy. Countries where direct democratic...

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Estimating the size of the shadow economy : methods, problems and open questions

Schneider, Friedrich; Bühn, Andreas - 2013

This paper presents the various methods to estimate the size of the shadow economy, their strengths and weaknesses. The purpose of the paper is twofold. Firstly, it demonstrates that no ideal method to estimate the size and development of the shadow economy exists. Because of its flexibility,...

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Size and development of tax evasion in 38 OECD countries : what do we (not) know?

Bühn, Andreas; Schneider, Friedrich - 2012 - This version: November 7, 2012

For the first time we develop a time series of tax evasion (in % of official GDP) for 38 OECD countries over the period 1999 to 2010 based on MIMIC model estimations of the shadow economy. Considering indirect taxation and self-employment as the driving forces of tax evasion, we observe a...

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Petty corruption and citizen feedback

Angelucci, Charles; Russo, Antonio - 2015

Numerous countries are introducing citizen feedback schemes to tame corruption. We study how best to incorporate feedback in public officials' incentives. The main novelty of our proposal is to allow citizens to directly influence officials' pay. We consider a situation in which entrepreneurs...

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