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Stock market reactions to India's 2016 demonetization : implications for tax evasion, corruption, and financial constraints
Dharmapala, Dhammika; Khanna, Vikramaditya S. - 2017
limited period). The stated reason for this sudden "demonetization" was to combat tax evasion and corruption associated with … is little evidence that sectors thought to be associated with greater tax evasion or corruption experienced significantly … may be due to possible indirect effects of the announcement on perceptions of future corruption among these firms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742981
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Containing tariff evasion
Anne, Clement; Chalendard, Cyril; Fernandes, Ana Margarida - 2023
To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies between exporters and importers are prevalent but small, with over two-fifths of importers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014435265
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The impact of government size on corruption : a meta-regression analysis
Bonanno, Graziella; Errico, Lucia; Fiorino, Nadia; … - 2024
We perform a Meta-Regression Analysis (MRA) of the literature on government size and corruption, examining 450 …-sectional data. Moreover, the type of indicator used to measure corruption has a significant impact on the sign of the relationship … significant results, whereas we find a positive relationship between the countries' corruption index and the effect size. …
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Bureaucratic corruption and profit tax evasion
Goerke, Laszlo (contributor) - 2006
bureaucrats. It is shown that the existence of tax evasion does not affect corruption activities at the firm level, while the … budgetary repercussions of tax evasion induce less corruption. Policy measures which alter the gains or losses from corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003301074
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A journey from a corruption port to a tax haven
Hebous, Shafik; Lipatov, Vilen - 2011
corruption and the concealment of officials' bribes, tax havens discourage the provision of public goods and hence have also a … ; multinational firms ; corruption …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009355141
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Spend-and-tax : a panel data investigation for the EU
Afonso, António; Rault, Christophe - 2009
Using bootstrap panel analysis, allowing for cross-country correlation, without the need of pre-testing for unit roots, we study the causality between government spending and revenue for the EU in the period 1960-2006. We find spend-and-tax causality for Italy, France, Spain, Greece, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861754
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Constitutional determinants of government spending
Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2000
corruption, the features of electoral cycles. The paper discusses both theory and evidence, and concludes with some speculations …
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Productive government expenditure and economic growth
Irmen, Andreas (contributor); Kuehnel, Johanna (contributor) - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003712517
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Can poductive government spending be the engine of long-run growth when labor supply is engogenous?
Park, Hyun; Philippopulos, Apostolēs - 2002
We reexamine the properties of optimal fiscal policy and their implications for implementable capital accumulation. The setup is a standard endogenous growth model with public production services, augmented by elastic labor supply. We show that, when a benevolent government chooses a distorting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409385
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Income inequality, voting over the size of public consumption, and growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2002
According to a standard argument, higher income inequality fosters redistributive activities of the government in favor of the median income earner. This paper shows that if redistribution is achieved by a public provision of goods and services rather than by transfers, higher income inequality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011409989