In this paper the behavior of a tax-collecting government (a tax office) when imposing a quantity-tax to firms is analyzed along a two-period signaling model. Each taxpayer privately knows its technological attributes, while third parties—the tax office among them—have only a prior belief...

This paper tests Bester's (1985, 1987) prediction about the separating role ofcontracts that involve both interest rates and collateral in credit markets. To test thisprediction we use data from natural credit markets and controlled experiments. Using asample of credits to small and medium size...

The following study identifies five periods with different price regimes (for main hydrocarbons): 1) 1986-1996, where these prices are part of the Government's fiscal policy to finance part of the structural adjustment policies after the inflationary period; 2) 1997-1999, when a new methodology...

The existence of incomplete financial markets, in an environment of uncertainty, is one of the problems of the Latin American economies, that determines a suboptimal path of public spending, with the consequent loss of social welfare. The existence of a high degree of positive correlation...

It is the purpose of this work to analyze the significance of changes in average for the collection of value-added (VAT) and income taxes from year 2000 and up to the second quarter of 2015. To accomplish that, classic methods of significance will be applied, but contrasted with tests for the...

Spanish Abstract: El presente estudio expone una metodología para medir la eficiencia de las administraciones tributarias en la recaudación de impuestos. Esta propuesta se dirige en especial a países en desarrollo que no tienen suficiente información desagregada para medir las brechas...

Spanish Abstract: Este trabajo analiza el vínculo entre el impuesto al patrimonio y la eficiencia en una economía descentralizada, con gobierno e imperfecciones en el mercado de capitales. Se plantea un modelo estático con dos tipos de individuos - productores, los cuales presentan distinto...