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The aftermath of the recent financial crisis has been followed by increasing saving rates, which may well reflect precautionary behaviour of households. In spite of a broad agreement on the theoretical implications of uncertainty on saving rates, empirical work has not yet reached a consensus on...
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'The fiscal history of a people is above all an essential part of its general history. An enormous influence on the fate of nations emanates from the economic bleeding which the needs of the state necessitates, and from the use to which the results are put.' Joseph Schumpeter, “The Crisis of...
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Статья посвящена изучению региональной налоговой культуры и особенностям институциональной структуры системы налогообложения в Германии на примере сравнения...
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Mineral wealth tends to make countries less democratic and more likely to experience a civil war. Many countries also find it hard to use their natural resource revenues to make high-quality, growth-enhancing investments. I argue that these problems are caused, in part, by the unusual qualities...
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According to a wide literature, oil has a negative effect on the level of democracy because of induced economic and … an estimate of the oil-democracy demultiplier. Moreover, we obtain an indicator of the surplus/deficit of democracy …
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once they impose a significant fiscal burden on their citizens. One difficulty in testing this taxation causes … citizens on democracy. The instrumental variables regressions with a panel of 122 countries over the period 1981-2008 suggest … that revenues had on average a mild positive effect on democracy. …
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Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue …
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What is the impact of political decentralisation in Latin America? This book considers the problems raised by political decentralisation in the region and identifies the challenges ahead. Political decentralisation tends to devolve a certain amount of financial responsibility to the sub-national...
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