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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality : A Panel Analysis

Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...

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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy

Torgler, Benno - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries' institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the size and development of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777897

Electoral Accountability and Corruption inLocal Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democraticinstitutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economicdevelopment. Yet despite its importance, our understanding of what determines corruption islimited. This paper uses a novel...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005862786

Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance andInstitutional Quality: A Panel Analysis

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of shadow...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863331

Telling the Truth May Not Pay Off: An Empirical Studyof Centralised University Admissions in Germany

Braun, Sebastian; Dwenger, Nadja; Kübler, Dorothea - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We investigate the matching algorithm used by the German central clearinghouse foruniversity admissions (ZVS) in medicine and related subjects. This mechanism consists ofthree procedures based on final grades from school ("Abiturbestenverfahren","Auswahlverfahren der Hochschulen") and on waiting...

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Political Selection When Uncertainty is High

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal; Khasanboev, Temurbek - 2022

Do voters place their trust in tried and tested leaders when uncertainty is high or do they prefer a new slate of leaders who are arguably more competent? To study this question, we make use of hand-collected data on 402,385 candidates who competed in open-list local council elections...

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Did the Nation-Wide Implementation of E-Fms in Mgnregs Result in Reduced Expenditures? A Re-Examination of the Evidence

Goel, Deepti; Meenakshi, J.; Souza, Zaeen de - 2022

This paper revisits a part of the analysis by Banerjee et al. (2020), in which they examine the consequences of the nation-wide scale up of reforms to the funds management system (e-FMS) in India's national workfare programme, using a two-way fixed effects specification. They report a...

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The Gender Recontest Gap in Elections

Baskaran, Thushyanthan; Hessami, Zohal - 2022

council elections (2001-2016) in a German state, we provide evidence for a gender recontest gap among both incumbent and non …

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COVID-19 Government Responses to Labour Market Disruptions and Economic Impacts : The New Zealand Model

Maani, Sholeh A. - 2022

The Covid-19 pandemic caused major shifts in the operation and fortunes of several industries within New Zealand, including an immediate impact on the workforce. In this setting, the combined epidemiological and economic responses of the government, businesses and the general public played a...

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Economic Integration and State Capacity : Evidence from the Eastern Enlargement of the European Union

Bruszt, Laszlo - 2018

We investigate whether and how economic integration increases state capacity. This important relationship has not been … increase in state capacity. The yearly data set covers all the 17 countries that became candidates to join the European Union … capacity seems to be the key engine of the process of state capacity building engendered by the prospect of EU membership. Deep …

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