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Digitalization and resilience : firm-level evidence during the COVID-19 pandemic
Abidi, Nordine; El Herradi, Mehdi; Sakha, Sahra - 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in an unprecedented shock to firms with adverse consequences for existing productive capacities. At the same time, digitalization has increasingly been touted as a key pathway for mitigating economic losses from the pandemic, and we expect firms facing digital...
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Will the economic impact of COVID-19 persist? : prognosis from 21st century pandemics
Emmerling, Johannes; Furceri, Davide; Líbano Monteiro, … - 2021
COVID-19 has had a disruptive economic impact in 2020, but how long its impact will persist remains unclear. We offer a prognosis based on an analysis of the effects of five previous major epidemics in this century. We find that these pandemics led to significant and persistent reductions in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012613687
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Two-sided market, R&D and payments system evolution
Li, Bin; McAndrews, James Joseph; Wang, Zhu - 2019
It takes many years for more efficient electronic payments to be widely used, and the fees that merchants (consumers) pay for using those services are increasing (decreasing) over time. We address these puzzles by studying payments system evolution with a dynamic model in a twosided market...
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The macroeconomic impacts of digitalization in Sub-Saharan Africa : evidence from submarine cables
Simione, Félix F.; Li, Yiruo - 2021
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Back to the future : fiscal rules for regaining sustainability in Belize
Cevik, Serhan - 2019
This paper assesses the cyclicality and sustainability of fiscal policy in Belize and applies a stochastic simulation … debt sustainability. It recommends integrating such rules into a well-designed fiscal responsibility law and establishing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012154706
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Assessing Dutch fiscal and debt sustainability
Carton, Benjamin; Fouejieu, Armand - 2020
debt sustainability over the next decade, taking into account alternative recovery scenarios and associated fiscal … persistent economic effects of the pandemic, risks to the Dutch fiscal and debt sustainability would remain contained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012485963
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Do audits deter or provoke future tax noncompliance? : evidence on self-employed taxpayers
Beer, Sebastian; Kasper, Matthias; Kirchler, Erich; … - 2019
This paper employs unique tax administrative data and operational audit information from a sample of approximately 7,500 self-employed U.S. taxpayers to investigate the effects of operational tax audits on future reporting behavior. Our estimates indicate that audits can have substantial...
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From natural resource boom to sustainable economic growth : lessons for Mongolia
Gupta, Pranav; Li, Bin Grace; Yu, Jiangyan - 2015
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Investment scaling-up and the role of government : the case of Benin
Ghilardi, Matteo F.; Sola, Sergio - 2015
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Riding the storm : fiscal sustainability in the Caribbean
Cevik, Serhan; Nanda, Vibha - 2020
Fiscal sustainability remains a paramount challenge for small economies with high debt and greater vulnerability to … climate change. This paper applies the model-based sustainability test for fiscal policy in a panel of 16 Caribbean countries … fiscal policy response is not adequate to ensure sustainability at higher levels of debt. We also find that the fiscal stance …
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