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A personalized VAT with capital transfers : a reform to protect low-income households in Mexico
Kotlikoff, Laurence J.; LaGarda, Guillermo; Marin, Gabriel - 2023
The Value-Added Tax (VAT) is the most prevalent consumption tax globally, yet it is frequently deemed highly regressive. To address this, we propose a Personalized VAT (PVAT) devised in conjunction with a distributional policy. We aim to achieve three objectives: increase revenue collection,...
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Experimental evidence on credit constraints
Bando Grana, Rosangela; Uribe, Claudia - 2016
Credit constraints are central to development economics theory. However, there is scant direct evidence that supports the existence of such constraints. Traditional tests observe how consumption changes after an unexpected income shock. Such changes can also result from myopic behavior or...
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Social proximity and misinformation : experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2022
We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health behaviour campaigns and the persistence of misinformation. We implement a field experiment among a representative sample of slum residents in two major Indian cities...
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Social proximity and misinformation : experimental evidence from a mobile phone-based campaign in India
Armand, Alex; Augsburg, Britta; Bancalari, Antonella; … - 2023
We study how social proximity between the sender and the receiver of information shapes the effectiveness of preventive health campaigns. Focusing on shared religious affiliation as a signal of proximity, we implemented a field experiment during the initial phase of the COVID-19 pandemic in two...
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Compliance and accountability : evidence from a field experiment in Argentina
Krakowski, Krzysztof; Ronconi, Lucas - 2023
Does compliance with low-cost civic duties increase demand for social accountability? We address this question by conducting a field experiment at train stations in Buenos Aires. We create exogenous variation in compliance with paying the public transportation fare by i) highlighting sanctions...
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Are some athletes more cognitive skilled than others when choosing their opponents in skiing-sprint elimination tournaments?
Karlsson, Niklas; Lunander, Anders - 2022
The study analyzes data from world cup cross-country skiing sprint elimination tournaments for men and women in 2015-2020. In these tournaments prequalified athletes sequentially choose in which of five quarterfinal heats they want to compete. Due to a time constraint on the day the tournament...
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Buffer-stock saving and households' response to income shocks
Fella, Giulio; Frache, Serafin; Koeniger, Winfried - 2017
contained in the joint dynamics of income, consumption and wealth to quantify the degree of insurance against income risk … significant insurance beyond that implied by self-insurance. …
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Accounting for the corporate cash increase
Zhao, Jake - 2014
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Temporary partnerships as an information transmission mechanism: foreign investment in emerging markets
Møllgaard, H. Peter; Overgaard, Per Baltzer - 1998
Asymmetric information and fear of acquiring a 'lemon' may explain the paucity of foreign investment in emerging market economies. If investors are uncertain about the profitability of investments, intrinsically inefficient, temporary partnerships or joint ventures may serve as mechanisms...
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Agricultural insurances based on meteorological indices: realizations, methods and research agenda
Leblois, Antoine; Quirion, Philippe - 2010
, farmers have little access to traditional crop insurance, which suffers from high information asymmetry and transaction costs … projects, in order to choose the meteorological index, the indemnity schedule and the insurance premium. We finally draw an … with other hedging methods. -- Agriculture ; Insurance ; Climatic Risk …
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