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particular focus on the role of export credit agencies. It concludes that while such agencies did not cause or prolong the …
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Export credit agencies (ECAs) have played a critical role in financing for developing countries in recent years, and … officially supported export credits have been growing in volume. The current export credit exposure to developing countries and … economies in transition has reached almost half a trillion dollars. This paper reviews developments in export credit markets …
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The aim of this paper is to provide new estimates of employment-output elasticities and assess the effect of structural and macroeocnomic policies on the employment-intensity of growth. Using an unbalanced panel of 167 countries over the period 1991 - 2009, the results suggest that structural...
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The paper provides estimates of the long-run, tax-adjusted, user cost elasticity of capital (UCE) in a small open … semi-elasticity of the stock of M and E with respect to the METR is about -0.2, suggesting, for example, that a 5 …
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This paper assesses a possible explanation for the global downward trend in top personal income tax rates over the last decades: globalization and the related tax evasion and avoidance opportunities could have raised elasticities of taxable income, which would imply lower optimal tax rates. The...
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This paper quantifies the variability of tax elasticities in Lithuania using two alternative methods: rolling regressions and pooled mean group estimator. The analysis is motivated by the systematic variation of tax revenues observed over the economic cycle in the recent past. Both methods...
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trade data. We impose homogeneity, and find an aggregate elasticity similar in value to conventional macroeconomic estimates …
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domestic and foreign labor markets. Using data from 66 countries over the period 1981–2005, we find that the elasticity of …
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