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There is limited research on the underlying institutional framework of tax policy and capacity: how tax collection efficiency changes over time and the importance of institutional factors in this process. This paper fills this gap by devising a measure of tax capacity distinct from commonly used...
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This paper aims to enhance the understanding of provincial tax performance in China, paying special attention to the recent fiscal reforms in the 1980s and in 1994. Using provincial panel data for the period 1986-2004, our analysis consists of two steps. First, a combined fixed time effects and...
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This paper aims to enhance the understanding of provincial tax performance in China, paying special attention to the recent fiscal reforms in the 1980s and in 1994. Using provincial panel data for the period 1986-2004, our analysis consists of two steps. First, a combined fixed time effects and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145831
The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in definitions and the countries studied. An alternative approach - of limiting the focus to studies of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320200
The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in definitions and the countries studied. An alternative approach - of limiting the focus to studies of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008934083
This paper develops and tests a Neoclassical growth model with the institution effect of government size in the framework of a dynamic panel data model, using two Generalized method of moments (GMM) estimators to address endogeneity of explanatory variables in estimation. I find a robust...
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The literature on the relationship between the size of government and economic growth is full of seemingly contradictory findings. This conflict is largely explained by variations in definitions and the countries studied. An alternative approach - of limiting the focus to studies of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014187531
In our 2011 survey of the literature in the Journal of Economic Surveys on the effect of government size on economic growth in wealthy countries we find a relatively consistent pattern: an increase in government size by 10 percentage points is associated with a 0.5 to 1 percentage point lower...
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The paper exploits the distributional dynamics and structural changes in the endogenous distribution of economic freedom across countries over time by utilizing the Rosenblatt-Parzen Kernel density estimator compared to the original distribution based on the methodology proposed by the Heritage...
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