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This paper analyzes the influence of the shadow economy on corruption and vice versa. We hypothesize that corruption and shadow economy are substitutes in high income countries while they are complements in low income countries. The hypotheses are tested for a crosssection of 120 countries and a...
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Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41%, in transition countries 38% and...
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Estimations of the size and development of the shadow economy for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over the period 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of official GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing...
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In this paper, I investigate to what extent the cross-country variation in nominal interest rates can be explained as being due to governments' optimal response to economic conditions such as tax collection costs, tax evasion and government consumption needs. In particular, I study the effects...
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We study optimal tax design based on the idea that policy-makers face trade-offs between multiple margins of redistribution. Within a Mirrleesian economy with earnings, consumption and retirement savings, we derive a novel formula for optimal income and savings distortions based on...
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In an increasingly globalized world, the design of international tax systems in terms of the taxation of foreign corporate income has attracted much attention from policy makers and economists alike. In the past, Japan's worldwide tax system taxed foreign source income upon repatriation....
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of Korea, United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and Vietnam, with whom India competes to get FDI and technology. The paper … concludes that all countries provide direct tax incentives to SEZs, and hence, if India wants to continue with the SEZ policy … exemptions. It makes policy recommendations on how to make the SEZ policy successful and an instrument of the "Make in India …
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influence on long-term INR swap yields after controlling for other factors, such as core inflation, the growth of industrial … the short-term interest rate has an important influence on the swap yields. This implies that the Reserve Bank of India …
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The paper reviews India's macroeconomic performance and policies since 2000. The first section briefly summarizes key … macroeconomic developments regarding economic growth, inflation, external balance, the fiscal situation and aggregate savings and … to deal with the challenge of the unprecedented surge in external capital inflows into India. The final section outlines …
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This study analyses India's inflation using the Phillips curve theory. To estimate an open-economy Phillips curve, we … need three variables: (1) inflation (2) the output gap and (3) the real effective exchange rate. In India, the incorrect … composite consumer price index (CCPI) was the best measure of inflation, and should be used to construct the real effective …
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