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We propose a model consistent with two observations. First, the tax rates adopted by different countries are generally uncorrelated with their growth performance. Second, countries that drastically reduce private incentives to invest, severely hurt their growth performance. In our model, the...
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class income. Furthermore, excluding the effect of taxes and the value of in-kind benefits further reduces observed …
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This paper examines a cost-reducing innovation to the delivery of "Self-Help Group" microfinance services. These groups … innovation is to have the agents earn their payment by charging membership fees rather than following the status quo in which the … problem. Empirically, we evaluate this innovation in East Africa using a randomized control trial. We find that privatized …
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, removes fat tails from the distribution of returns, and increases social welfare. In contrast, constant debt taxes are …
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I examine Ronald Coase's criticism of standard regulatory and tax policies to address environmental externalities. I elaborate some of Coase's key points and discuss opportunities for Coasean exchange as an alternative mitigation approach. Regulation, tax, and Coasean exchange, such as through...
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expropriated taxes - can increase the profits of all agents active within a common-pool resource. This somewhat counterintuitive …
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Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct investment (FDI). By combining data on US outbound FPI and FDI, this paper analyzes whether the composition of US outbound capital flows reflect efforts to bypass home...
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an entrepreneurial sector, the paper investigates the effects of taxes on the equilibrium level of entrepreneurship and … managerial advice. It considers dierential wage and capital income taxes, a comprehensive income tax, incomplete loss offset …
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Tax rates have fluctuated considerably since federal income taxes were introduced in the United States in 1913. This … taxation affects the after-tax returns of both risky and safe assets. Whenever taxes change, bond and equity prices adjust to …
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The move from traditional to open-access journals—which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees—is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors (who prefer low subscription fees because this...
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