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Globalization and developing countries - a shrinking tax base?

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2006

This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration. This in turn should shift …

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Globalization and developing countries - a shrinking tax base?

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2006

This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on the tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see … globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration, and macro stabilization. This …" taxes. We confirm the robustness of the main results to IV methodology, where trade globalization is inferred from applying …

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2008 Lawrence R. Klein lecture - Comparative economic development: Insights from unified growth theory

Galor, Oded - 2009

This paper explores the implications of Unified Growth Theory for the origins of existing differences in income per capita across countries. The theory sheds light on three fundamental layers of comparative development. It identifies the factors that have governed the pace of the transition from...

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How Banks Construct and Manage Risk : A Sociological Study of Small Firm Lending in Britain and Germany

Quack, Sigrid - 2012

This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological …

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Beteiligungsberichterstattung der öffentlichen Hand im 13-Länder-Vergleich: Erfordernisse für mehr Transparenz über die Governance und Performance öffentlicher Unternehmen

Papenfuß, Ulf; Steinhauer, Lars; Friedländer, Benjamin - 2015

[Einführung und Motivation ...] Die Studie bietet eine erste Orientierungshilfe für Praxis und Wissenschaft. Sie leistet damit auch eine notwendige Basis für weiterführende vergleichende Analysen des Beteiligungsberichtswesens im internationalen Kontext. In Kapitel 2 werden Relevanz von und...

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Does the shadow economy raise observed aggregate efficiency? A cross-country comparison

Méon, Pierre-Guillaume; Schneider, Friedrich G.; … - 2006

We analyze how adding the shadow economy to official output figures affects technical efficiency. We find that this only slightly affects the ranking of efficiency scores, but increases average efficiency. Our results are robust to the functional form of the production technology and the...

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On Compulsory Voting and Income Inequality in a Cross-Section of Countries

Chong, Alberto; Olivera, Mauricio - 2005

around the world. Our empirical cross-country analysis for 91 countries during the period 1960-2000 shows that compulsory …

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Employment Protection and Gross Job Flows: A Differences-in-Differences Approach

Micco, Alejandro; Pagés-Serra, Carmen - 2004

This paper examines the effect of employment protection regulation on gross job flows in a sample of developed and developing countries. By implementing a differences-in-differences test we lessen the potentially severe endogeneity and omitted variable problems associated with cross-country...

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Public Debt around the World: A New Dataset of Central Government Debt

Jaimovich, Dany; Panizza, Ugo - 2006

Commonly used datasets on the level of public debt provide incomplete country and period coverage. This paper presents a new dataset that includes complete series of central government debt for 89 countries over the 1991-2005 period and for seven other countries for the 1993-2005 period. The...

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What Drives Differences in Inequality Across Countries?

Székely, Miguel; Hilgert, Marianne - 2000

the world. The empirical results provide insights into the transmission mechanisms through which inequality is generated. …

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