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The Value-Added Tax Reform Puzzle
Cai, Jing - 2012
We explore the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some investment goods. While the goal of the experiment was to encourage upgrading of technology, our results suggest that there was no evident increase overall in fixed investment, and...
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The Value-Added Tax Reform Puzzle
Cai, Jing - 2011
We explore the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some investment goods. While the goal of the experiment was to encourage upgrading of technology, our results suggest that there was no evident increase overall in fixed investment, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119338
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When Do Firms Go Green? Comparing Command and Control Regulations with Price Incentives in India
Harrison, Ann E. - 2015
examine India's experience and find evidence that CAC policies achieved substantial environmental benefits at a relatively low … cost. Constructing an establishment-level panel from 1998 to 2009, we find that the CAC regulations imposed by India …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011089
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In with the Big, Out with the Small : Removing Small-Scale Reservations in India
Martin, Leslie A. - 2014
) promotion in India to address this question. For 60 years, SSI promotion in India focused on reserving certain products for …, productivity, and wages of dismantling India's SSI reservations. We exploit variation in the timing of de-reservation across …
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Learning Versus Stealing : How Important are Market-Share Reallocations to India's Productivity Growth?
Harrison, Ann E. - 2011
, firm-level data from India's organized manufacturing sector to show that market-share reallocations did play an important … role in aggregate productivity gains immediately following the start of India's trade reforms in 1991. However, aggregate … attributed to India's trade liberalization and FDI reforms. Finally, we construct a panel dataset that allows us to track firms …
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