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Network Effects and Research Collaborations
Essers, Dennis; Grigoli, Francesco; Pugacheva, Evgenia - 2021
We study the determinants of new and repeated research collaborations, drawing on the co-authorship network of the International Monetary Fund (IMF)'s Working Papers series. Being an outlet where authors express their views on topics of interest, and given that IMF staff is not subject to the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013249731
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Designing Fiscal Redistribution : The Role of Universal and Targeted Transfers
Coady, David - 2020
There is a growing debate on the relative merits of universal and targeted social assistancetransfers in achieving income redistribution objectives. While the benefits of targeting areclear, i.e., a larger poverty impact for a given transfer budget or lower fiscal cost for a givenpoverty impact,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828240
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Knowledge Spillovers from Superstar Tech-Firms : The Case of Nokia
Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki; Cherif, Reda; Hasanov, Fuad; … - 2022
Do workers hired from superstar tech-firms contribute to better firm performance? To address this question, we analyze the effects of tacit knowledge spillovers from Nokia in the context of a quasi-natural experiment in Finland, the closure of Nokia’s mobile device division in 2014 and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013306731
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A Framework for Efficient Government Investment
Warner, Andrew - 2013
Welfare economics, scope and performance of government, externalities, public goods, cost-benefit analysis, subsidies economize on spending without losing effectiveness by modifying the conceptual framework guiding state expenditures. The familiar framework says that state intervention is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085132
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A Note on Debt Reduction and Economic Efficiency
Dooley, Michael P. - 2006
This note examines the efficiency gains that might result from market-based debt reduction and alternative uses of … government investment or consumption. Given considerable uncertainty about the efficiency returns of alternative uses of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012781313
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The Efficiency of Vat Implementation : A Comparative Study of Central and Eastern European Countries in Transition
Jack, William - 2006
This paper presents calculations of the efficiency with which value-added taxes are collected in five transition … relatively high collection efficiency, and the other relatively low efficiency. While lack of detailed information on tax rules …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012782026
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Increasing Public Sector Revenue in the Philippines : Equity and Efficiency Considerations
Fletcher, Kevin Timothy - 2006
Public sector revenue has declined markedly in the Philippines over the past seven years. Most observers of the Philippine economy agree that rebuilding public sector revenue will be critical to reducing deficits and ensuring public sector debt sustainability. This paper reviews several of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012783423
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Education Systems and Foreign Direct Investment : Does External Efficiency Matter?
Wendlassida Miningou, Elise - 2017
This paper examines the effect of the efficiency of the education system on Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). First, it … focuses on the external efficiency and applies a frontier-based measure as a proxy of the ability of countries to optimally … efficiency of the education system and FDI inflows by applying GMM regression technique. The results show that the efficiency …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012956477
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Structural Transformation and Tax Efficiency
Cevik, Serhan - 2019
developing countries across the world. We analyze the impact of this shift into services on countries' efficiency in collecting … the value-added tax (VAT). The analysis is based on two alternative measures of VAT efficiency: (1) the VAT C-efficiency … 2004-2016. We find that a higher share of services in aggregate value-added reduces the VAT efficiency, and that this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012889162
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Lessons from the Old Masters on Assessing Equity and Efficiency : A Primer for Fiscal Policymakers
Gaspar, Vitor - 2017
redistribution, and Anthony Atkinson, who showed how equity and efficiency canbe measured simultaneously and summarized in a single …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012944957