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Shadow economies around the world : size, causes, and consequences
Schneider, Friedrich; Enste, Dominik - 1999
findings, a growing shadow economy has a negative effect on official GDP growth, and a positive impact of corruption on the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781691
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The role of tax depreciation for investment decisions : a comparison of European transition countries
Nam, Chang-woon; Radulescu, Doina - 2003
This study compares incentive effects of various tax depreciation methods currently adopted in European transition economies. In these countries straight-line, geometric-degressive and accelerated depreciation measures are quite popular in combination with different corporate tax rates. Their...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514138
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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?
Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003377261
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Dumping in developing and transition economies
Moraga-González, José Luis (contributor);  … - 2004
We build a simple theoretical model to understand why developing and transition economies have increasingly applied anti-dumping laws. To that end, we investigate the strategic incentives of oligopolistic exporting firms to undertake dumping in these economies. We show that dumping may be due to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002523874
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Reform, uncertainty and spillovers : a gravity model approach
Fidrmuc, Jan; Karaja, Elira; Tichit, Ariane - 2012
Reforms often occur in waves, seemingly cascading from country to country. We argue that such reform waves may be driven by informational spillovers: uncertainty about the outcome of reform is reduced by learning from the experience of similar countries. We motivate this hypothesis with a simple...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009503832
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the crisis
Fidrmuc, Jan; Tichit, Ariane - 2012
We investigate the effects of economic crises on the subsequent economic performance, economic reform, democratization and institutional change. Our analysis is based on a sample of post-communist countries, most of which experienced severe economic crises during the 1990s. We find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488896
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Creditor passivity : the effects of bank competition and institutions on the strategic use of bankruptcy filings
Hainz, Christa (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003624944
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Market contestability and bribe solicitations : evidence across stages of firms' operations
Goel, Rajeev K.; Mazhar, Ummad; Saunoris, James W. - 2018
Adding to the literature on factors driving corruption and bribery, this paper examines the effect of contestability in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011822610
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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 …. Officials verify compliance to determine whether to grant permits, and may engage in either bribery or extortion. Without … feedback, the government has no choice but to tolerate bribery, which leads to too many permits being granted and large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011343756
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Compliance costs, corruption and the differentiation of bureaucratic services
Seidel, André - 2015 - This version: 12.17.2015
How to fight petty day-to-day corruption is a question often debated by politicians, by the public and in the economic … literature. Early studies have noted that a simple and well-known way to fight day-to-day corruption is to create competition … in a way that eliminates corruption. This is due to a tradeoff between corruption and compliance costs. More …
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