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Second Best? Investment Climate and Performance in Africa's Special Economic Zones
Farole, Thomas - 2017
industrialization, diversification, and trade integration in many countries, particularly in East Asia. However, in the African context …, facilitating exports, and creating jobs. Economic zones in Africa offer an improved business environment relative to what is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976338
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Lifting Economic Sanctions on Iran : Global Effects and Strategic Responses
Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017
This paper uses a global general equilibrium simulation model to quantify the effects of lifting economic sanctions on Iran with and without strategic responses. Iran benefits the most, with average per capita welfare gains ranging from close to 3 percent, in the case when Iran's crude oil...
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What Drives Local Food Prices? Evidence from the Tanzanian Maize Market
Baffes, John - 2017
This study quantifies the relationship between Tanzanian and external maize markets while also accounting for domestic influences. It concludes that external influences on domestic prices originate from regional, rather than global, markets. It also shows that, compared to external factors,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971505
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Political Connections and Tariff Evasion : Evidence from Tunisia
Rijkers, Bob - 2018
Are politically connected firms more likely to evade taxes? This paper presents evidence suggesting firms owned by President Ben Ali and his family were more prone to evade import tariffs. During Ben Ali?s reign, evasion gaps, defined as the difference between the value of exports to Tunisia...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937184
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The Political Economy of Bank Lending : Evidence from an Emerging Market
Agarwal, Sumit - 2017
This study investigates the existence of political rents in bank lending, using a comprehensive loan-level data set of the universe of commercial loans in Mexico from 2003 to 2012. Identification relies on changes in the state of origin of a senate committee chairman as a source of exogenous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969958
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Import Dynamics and Demands for Protection
Hillberry, Russell H. - 2017
What kinds of changes in foreign competition lead domestic industries to seek import protection? To address this question this paper uses detailed monthly U.S. import data to investigate changes in import composition during a 24-month window immediately preceding the filing of a petition for...
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Why Multi-Stakeholder Groups Succeed and Fail
Truex, Rory - 2017
Anti-corruption initiatives increasingly use multi-stakeholder groups, comprised of representatives from government, private sector, and civil society organizations, to drive implementation at the local level and serve as a force for transparency. In theory, the multi-stakeholder groups ideal is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976261
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Political Capture of Decentralization : Vote-Buying Through Grants-Financed Local Jurisdictions
Khemani, Stuti - 2017
A recent trend in decentralization in several large and diverse countries is the creation of local jurisdictions below the regional level -- municipalities, towns, and villages -- whose spending is almost exclusively financed by grants from both regional and national governments. This paper...
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Political Connections and Firms : Network Dimensions
Bussolo, Maurizio - 2018
Business and politicians' interaction is pervasive but has mostly been analyzed with a binary approach, i.e. either a firm is connected to a politician or not. Yet the network dimensions of such connections are ubiquitous. This paper uses use a unique data set for seven economies that documents...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920023
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Lobbying for Capital Tax Benefits and Misallocation of Resources During a Credit Crunch
Zaourak, Gabriel Roberto - 2018
lobbying. For the U.S. financial crisis of 2007-09, this paper shows that lobbying activity intensified, driven by large firms … endogenous lobbying, the paper studies the aggregate consequences of this rise in lobbying activity. When calibrated to U ….S. micro data, the model generates an increase in lobbying that matches the magnitude and the cross-sector and within …
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