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What Explains Cities' Climate Policy - Making? A Review of Drivers and Barriers
Sippel, Maike; Jenssen, Till - In: Journal of Environmental Management and Tourism I (2010) 1, pp. 39-56
A large proportion of greenhouse gas emissions is produced in urban areas. Therefore, local mitigation policies have to play an important role in any effective global climate protection strategy. Based upon a literature review, this article gives an overview of drivers and barriers for local...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008670484
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In-group favouritism and out-group discimination in naturally occurring groups
Harris, Donna; Abbink, Klaus - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2012
against supporters of the rival party.  Despite a strong anti-corruption stance of the yellow-shirt movement members of both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004284
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Tax Evasion Dynamics in Romania Reflected by Fiscal Inspection Activities
ENE, CORINA-MARIA - In: Romanian Journal of Economics 30 (2010) 1(39), pp. 146-158
evasion. The author has also tried to find a causality relation between the option for tax evasion and corruption. The author … entire tax evasion, an important part being impossible to determine because of corruption. …
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Audit Risk and Rent Extraction: Evidence from a Randomized Evaluation in Brazil
Zamboni, Yves; Litschig, Stephan - Barcelona Graduate School of Economics (Barcelona GSE) - 2014
audit risk by about 20 percentage points reduced the proportion of procurement processes with evidence of corruption by … about 15 percentage points and the share of audited resources involved in corruption by about 10 percentage points. We show … that these results are invariant to alternative corruption codings that have been used in prior literature. In contrast, we …
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Corruption, Harassment and Evasion in Tax Collection
Kumar, Nitin - In: Indian Economic Review 43 (2008) July, pp. 125-139
collusion between the inspector and the taxpayer. In a corrupt regime the cost of corruption has a regressive bias. Also, it is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005078593
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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries’ institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822679
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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - School of Economics and Finance, Business School - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005766362
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To Give In or Not To Give In To Bribery? Setting the Optimal Fines for Violations of Rules when the Enforcers are Likely to Ask for Bribes
Celik, Gorkem; Sayan, Serdar - Vancouver School of Economics - 2005
In this paper, we develop a model of law enforcement with the possibility of corruption between enforcers and potential …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004980433
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Shadow Economy, Tax Morale, Governance and Institutional Quality: A Panel Analysis
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007
This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadow economy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of shadow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005536943
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The Impact of Tax Morale and Institutional Quality on the Shadow Economy
Torgler, Benno; Schneider, Friedrich - Center for Research in Economics, Management and the … - 2007
This paper analyses how tax morale and countries? institutional quality affect the shadow economy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literature strongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level and changes of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005536952