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This paper uses the gravity model to analyze whether the varying export performance of Croatian counties can be explained by their proximity to border gates, ports, and other county-specific characteristics. The analysis finds that longer distances to border gates increase trade frictions...
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tax records to construct a complete income distribution. Combining the two data sources is necessary because, on the one … hand, household surveys do not accurately represent the wealthiest segment of the population, while tax records do; on the … other hand, the opposite is true for the lower end of the income distribution: tax records only include incomes above a …
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The paper examines the incentives and distortions created by tax policy and administration structures that motivate … individuals to undeclare or under-declare work in the new EU member countries. It analyses the tax level and the tax structure …"mix"of tax instruments, the special taxation regimes set up to attract workers and entrepreneurs back into the formal economy and …
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This paper provides an overview of the literature on tax morale and tax compliance. Most of the material here is based … trust within the society to enforce tax compliance and tax morale. …
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The rapid growth of exports since the early 1990s is a central feature in the extraordinary rise of Peru's economy in recent years. This study puts a lens on this export growth episode, with special attention to two issues. The first one is the role of international price levels as well as...
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The authors systematically document remarkably high degrees of concentration in manufacturing exports for a sample of 151 countries over a range of 3,000 products. For every country manufacturing exports are dominated by a few"big hits"which account for most of the export value and where...
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The number of national export promotion agencies (EPAs) has tripled over the past two decades. While more countries have made them part of their national export strategy, studies have criticized their efficiency in developing countries (Hogan, Keesing, and Singer 1991). Partly in reaction to...
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Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The authors provide estimates of the potential...
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Recent developments in trade theory, especially research on multi-product firms, have not been matched by similar progress on the empirical front. This paper aims to fill this gap by presenting a novel set of stylized facts on firm-product dynamics observed during an export boom. This exercise...
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Turkey's recovery from its debt crisis ( 1978 - 80 ) has made it the paragon of export led growth. The driving force behind the Turkish export miracle has remained a matter of debate. If what happened in Turkey was a spillover of its proximity to the Middle East, there is little other countries...
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