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Corruption and Technology-Induced Private Sector Development.
Yehoue, Etienne B - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013042567
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Can Digitalization Help Deter Corruption in Africa?
Ouedraogo, Rasmane - 2020
This paper studies the effect of digitalization on the perception of corruption and trust in tax officials in Africa … digital adoption is associated with a reduction in the perception of corruption and an increase in trust in tax officials … the use of Internet on the perception of corruption. Yet, the paper shows that the dampening effect of digitalization on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014408790
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Corruption Kills: Global Evidence from Natural Disasters
Cevik, Serhan - 2023
corruption increases the loss of human lives caused by natural disasters, using a large panel of 135 countries during the period … 1980-2020. The econometric analysis provides convincing evidence that corruption increases the number of disaster … corruption in a given country, the greater the number of fatalities as a share of population due to natural disasters. Our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059047
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Assessing Vulnerabilities to Corruption in Public Procurement and Their Price Impact
Abdou, Aly - 2022
Public procurement can be highly vulnerable to corruption. This paper outlines a methodology and results in assessing … corruption risks in public procurement and their impact on relative prices, using large databases on government contracts and … corruption risk factor (aggregated in a synthetic corruption risk index). While there are intrinsic limitations to our study …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015060415
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The Macroeconomic Consequences of Import Tariffs and Trade Policy Uncertainty
Boer, Lukas - 2024
We estimate the macroeconomic effects of import tariffs and trade policy uncertainty in the United States, combining theory-consistent and narrative sign restrictions in Bayesian SVARs. We find mostly adverse consequences of protectionism, in aggregate and across sectors and regions. Tariff...
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Trade Openness and Volatility
Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2008
This paper examines the mechanisms through which output volatility is related to trade openness using an industry-level panel dataset of manufacturing production and trade. The main results are threefold. First, sectors more open to international trade are more volatile. Second, trade is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677612
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Globalization and Corporate Taxation.
Kumar, Manmohan S - 2012
This paper analyzes the extent to which the degree of international economic integration, both financial and trade, affects corporate tax rates. It explores this issue in the context of strategic behavior by countries, taking into account other global and domestic political economy factors. Tax...
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The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms
Méjean, Isabelle - 2010
Economists interested in location choices usually focus their attention on investments abroad. This neglects the fact that multinational enterprises continue to invest domestically while undertaking foreign expansion. This paper compares investments at home and abroad. Our firm-level dataset...
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International Tax Spillovers and Tangible Investment, with Implications for the Global Minimum Tax
Keen, Michael - 2023
This paper articulates and, using newly-assembled data, explores how international taxation affects aggregate tangible cross-border investment. Spillovers from statutory tax rates abroad seem: As sizable as effects from the host's rate; larger than previous consensus values (attributed to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059218
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Measuring Multinational Production with Foreign Direct Investment Statistics: Recent Trends, Challenges, and Developments
Casella, Bruno - 2023
In a complex global production landscape, the quest for measures of economic activity by multinational enterprises (MNEs) has become more pressing. Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) statistics, which capture financing aspects of MNEs, have often been used as a proxy for multinational production...
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