Improving electricity access in low-income countries is a challenging problem because of the high costs of grid … extension and low demand for grid electricity in rural areas. This study elucidates these constraints by analyzing poor … households' willingness-to-pay for different types of electricity access, including lower cost off-grid technologies. The …

We estimate the elasticity of corporate taxable income with respect to the effective corporate tax rate on the basis of … significant and relatively large point estimate of the average tax base elasticity, which implies that a reduction of the … also find some statistically weak evidence for the hypothesis that the tax base elasticity is higher for corporations that …

uncompensated interest rate elasticity for savings, in line with the literature, to around zero. Accordingly, any policy …. -- Consumption-savings decision ; interest rate elasticity of savings ; income uncertainty …