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THE IMPACT OF TAX MORALE ANDINSTITUTIONAL QUALITY ON THESHADOW ECONOMY

TORGLER, BENNO; SCHNEIDER, FRIEDRICH - CESifo GmbH <München> - 2007

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries´ institutional quality affect the shadoweconomy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of...

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Electoral Accountability and Corruption inLocal Governments: Evidence from Audit Reports

Ferraz, Claudio; Finan, Frederico - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Political corruption is a concern of many modern democracies. It weakens democraticinstitutions, restricts public … determines corruption islimited. This paper uses a novel dataset of political corruption in local governments,constructed from … reports of an anti-corruption program in Brazil, to test whether the possibilityof re-election affects the level of rents …

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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance andInstitutional Quality: A Panel Analysis

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of shadow...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005863331

Critical Issues in Microbusiness Finance and the Role of Donors

Schmidt, Reinhard H.; Zeitinger, Claus-Peter - 1997

In the early 1990s, a consensus emerged among the leading experts in the field of small and micro business finance. It is based on three elements: The focus of projects should be on improving the entire financial sector of a given developing country; a commercial approach should be adopted,...

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Microfinance als ein Geflecht von Anreizproblemen

Schmidt, Reinhard H.; Tschach, Ingo - 2001

Zugang zu Krediten ist für kleine und mittelgroße Unternehmen in Entwicklungsländern von großer Bedeutung, um ihre ökonomischen Möglichkeiten besser auszuschöpfen und so die Einkommen ihrer Besitzer, aber auch ihrer Mitarbeiter zu erhöhen. Deshalb hat die Entwicklungshilfe in der...

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Networks of Micro and Small Enterprise Banks: A Contribution to Financial Sector Development

Schmidt, Reinhard H.; Von Pischke, John D. - 2004

The paper is a follow-up to an article published in Technique Financière etDeveloppement in 2000 (see the appendix to the hardcopy version), which portrayedthe first results of a new strategy in the field of development finance implemented inSouth-East Europe. This strategy consists in creating...

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SHADOW ECONOMY, TAX MORALE, GOVERNANCE AND INSTITUTIONAL QUALITY : A PANEL ANALYSIS

Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - CESifo GmbH <München>

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005859032

Property Rights and Economic Development

Besley, Timothy; Ghatak, Maitreesh - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This chapter develops a unified analytical framework, drawing on and extending the existing literatureon the subject, for studying the role of property rights in economic development. Itaddresses two fundamental and related questions concerning the relationship between propertyrights and...

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Group lending, local information and peer selection

Ghatak, Maitreesh - University <Chicago, Ill.> / Department of Economics - 1999

This paper analyzes how group lending programs use joint liability to utilize localinformation that borrowers have about each other’s projects through self-selection of groupmembers in the group formation stage. These schemes are shown to lead to positiveassortative matching in group...

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Informal Workers Across Europe:Evidence from 30 Countries

Hazans, Mihails - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2011

The European Social Survey data are used to analyze informal employment at the main jobin 30 countries. Overall, informality decreases from South to West to East to North. However,dependent work without contract is more prevalent in Eastern Europe than in the West,except for Ireland, the UK and...

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