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Shadow Economies and Corruption All Over the World : What Do We Really Know?
Schneider, Friedrich - 2021
Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of official GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013317424
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Migration Elasticities, Fiscal Federalism and the Ability of States to Redistribute Income
Giertz, Seth H. - 2012
This paper develops a simulation model in order to examine the effectiveness of state attempts at redistribution under …-level redistribution are substantial, but state action may still be preferred to a federal policy that is at odds with preferences of a … state pursuing additional redistribution, but not a cost at the national level …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013099765
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The Dynamic Response of Municipal Budgets to Revenue Shocks
Helm, Ines; Stuhler, Jan - 2023
We study the fiscal and tax response to intergovernmental grants, exploiting quasi-experimental variation within Germany's fiscal equalization scheme triggered by Census revisions of official population counts. Municipal budgets do not adjust instantly. Instead, spending and investments adapt...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014357255
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Local Political Budget Cycles in a Federation : Evidence from West German Cities
Furdas, Marina Dimitrova - 2015
This paper analyzes the occurrence of political budget cycles in 604 West German cities between 1975 and 2007. Due to the idiosyncratic timing of state and local elections, the budgetary changes before elections at two tiers of the federalist government can be separately estimated and can also...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028186
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Policy Responses to Fiscal Restraints : A Difference-in-Discontinuities Design
Grembi, Veronica - 2012
We evaluate the effect of relaxing fiscal rules on policy outcomes applying a quasi-experimental research design. In 1999, the Italian central government introduced fiscal rules aimed at imposing fiscal discipline on municipal governments, and in 2001 the rules were relaxed for municipalities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098807
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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
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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
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Corruption and the Shadow Economy : A Structural Equation Model Approach
Buehn, Andreas - 2009
The relationship between corruption and the shadow economy is not clear. Theoretically, they either substitute or complement each other - exhibiting either a negative or positive relationship. This paper - using a structural equation model with two latent variables - extracts information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013159506
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Electoral Accountability and Corruption in Local Governments : Evidence from Audit Reports
Ferraz, Claudio - 2007
Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democratic institutions, restricts public services, and lowers productivity undermining economic development. Yet despite its importance, our understanding of what determines corruption is limited. This paper uses a novel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012776584
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012777822