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The Optimal Size of a Tax Collection Agency
Slemrod, Joel - 1985
This paper addresses the optimal degree of law enforcement regarding tax evasion. It derives the conditions that characterize the optimal size of a tax collection agency, and then provides a simple interpretation of the conditions in terms of excess burden.The paper clarified earlier findings...
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Optimal Tax Administration
Keen, Michael - 2016
This paper sets out a framework for analyzing optimal interventions by a tax administration, one that parallels and can be closely integrated with established frameworks for thinking about optimal tax policy. At its heart is a summary measure of the impact of administrative interventions--the...
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Kleptocracy and Divide-and-Rule : A Model of Personal Rule
Acemoglu, Daron - 2003
Many developing countries have suffered under the personal rule of kleptocrats', who implement highly inefficient economic policies, expropriate the wealth of their citizens, and use the proceeds for their own glorification or consumption. We argue that the success of kleptocrats rests, in part,...
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Macroprudential Policy with Leakages
Bengui, Julien - 2018
The outreach of macroprudential policies is likely limited in practice by imperfect regulation enforcement, whether due to shadow banking, regulatory arbitrage, or other regulation circumvention schemes. We study how such concerns affect the design of optimal regulatory policy in a workhorse...
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Optimal Gradualism
Lehr, Nils H.; Restrepo, Pascual - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
This paper studies how gradualism affects the welfare gains from trade, technology, and reforms. When people face adjustment frictions, gradual shocks create less adverse distributional effects in the short run. We show that there are welfare gains from inducing a more gradual transition via...
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How Does Expropriation Risk Affect Innovation?
Benavente H., José Miguel; Bravo Ortega, Claudio; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
risk, such as corruption, negatively impacts innovation by reducing R&D expenditure, human capital in R&D, number of …
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Robots, Trade, and Luddism : A Sufficient Statistic Approach to Optimal Technology Regulation
Costinot, Arnaud - 2018
valued? We provide a general theory of optimal technology regulation in a second best world, with rich heterogeneity across …
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Organized Crime and Economic Growth : Evidence from Municipalities Infiltrated by the Mafia
Fenizia, Alessandra; Saggio, Raffaele - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies the long-run economic impact of dismissing city councils infiltrated by organized crime. Applying a matched difference-in-differences design to the universe of Italian social security records, we find that city council dismissals (CCDs) increase employment, the number of...
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Randomness in Tax Enforcement
Scotchmer, Suzanne - 1988
For most parameter values, increased randomness about how much taxable income an auditor would assess leads to higher reported income and more revenue, When reducing randomness is costly, optimality requires some randomness in assessed taxable Income. Even if reducing randomness g costless,...
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Equilibrium Consequences of Corruption on Firms : Evidence from China’s Anti-Corruption Campaign
Ding, Haoyuan - 2020
We use China's recent anti-corruption campaign as a natural experiment to examine the (market expected) equilibrium … consequences of (anti-)corruption. We argue that the announcement of inspections of provincial governments by the Central … Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on May 17, 2013 represents a significant departure of past norms of anti-corruption …
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