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This paper employs regression discontinuity methods to identify the effect of formality on Brazilian micro-firm performance. The SIMPLES program introduced in November 1996 consolidated multiple taxes and social security contributions into a single payment and reduced taxes for eligible small...
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This paper provides a synthetic and systematic review on the effectiveness of various entrepreneurship programs in developing countries. We adopt a meta-regression analysis using 37 impact evaluation studies that were in the public domain by March 2012, and draw out several lessons on the design...
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We investigate the returns to capital and capital accumulation using panel data of Peruvian micro enterprises (MEs). Marginal returns to capital are found to be very high at low levels of capital, but rapidly decreasing at higher levels. The dynamic analyses of capital accumulation in MEs...
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Sharing is a norm in many societies. We present a theoretical model on the trade-off between sharing and investment which we test on data from tailors in Burkina Faso. The empirical results support the idea that there are two behavioural patterns: entrepreneurs following an 'insurance regime'...
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municipal business tax rate over the period 1987-2013 for identification. Applying event study models, we find a negative and … plant size distribution questions policy makers common practice to link targeted R&D tax incentives to plant size. We …
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This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than … previously planned increases by three percentage points after a tax hike. This effect is twice as large during recessions. …
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, regardless of whether the policy rate follows a standard feedback rule or is at its zero lower bound. Likewise, labor tax …
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This theoretical contribution shows a simple way in which the quantity equation can be derived as a long-term equilibrium solution for the case of a closed economy and an open economy, respectively. It is shown first for the case of a closed economy which parameters stand behind "velocity" and...
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A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 offered tax incentives for investing in certain low-income areas in …
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-cigarette and cigarette price and tax changes. Our price variation comes from 35,000 retailers participating in the Nielsen Retail … Scanner data system. We match price and tax variation to survey data on current use of e-cigarettes and cigarettes for over 94 …
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