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Economic growth, corruption and tax evasion
Cerqueti, Roy; Coppier, Raffaella - In: Economic Modelling 28 (2011) 1, pp. 489-500
In this paper, we explore tax revenues in a regime of widespread corruption in a growth model. We develop a Ramsey …
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Corruption Clubs : Endogenous Thresholds in Corruption and Development
Haque, M. Emranul; Kneller, Richard - 2005
The relationship between corruption and economic development is characterised by three stylised facts: (i) a strong … negative correlation between corruption and development (ii) countries can remain trapped in high corruption-low development or … low corruption-high development equilibria (iii) amongst intermediate levels of development corruption levels are more …
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Nonlinearity between the shadow economy and level of development
Wu, Dong Frank; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019
This paper is the first attempt to directly explore the long-run nonlinearity of the shadow economy. Using a dataset of 158 countries over the period from 1996 to 2015, our results reveal a robust U-shaped relationship between the shadow economy size and GDP per capita. Our results imply that...
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Tax Policy and Inclusive Growth
Abdel-Kader, Khaled; De Mooij, Ruud A. - 2021
This paper discusses the theory and practice of tax design to achieve an efficient and equitable outcome, i.e. in support of inclusive growth. It starts with a discussion of the key principles from tax theory to guide practical tax design. Then, it elaborates on more granular tax policy,...
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How does petty corruption affect tax morale in Sub-Saharan Africa? : an empirical analysis
Jahnke, Björn - 2015
industrialized world. Several scholars argue that corruption is one of the major obstacles to increase tax revenues but focus on … perceived corruption and remain on the macro-level. This study uses mirco-level data from the Afrobarometer survey wave 5 and … thus relates personal corruption experiences to tax morale. The nationally representative survey includes information about …
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The economic development impact of natural disasters in APEC countries (1999-2013)
Primanti, Inez Novialita; Roeslan, Femmy; Hastiadi, … - In: Journal of economic cooperation & development 39 (2018) 2, pp. 1-28
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Corruption Perception Index (CPI), as an index of economic growth for European countries
Papageorgiou, Christos; Kalamara, Eleni; Komninos, Dimitrios - In: Theoretical economics letters 8 (2018) 3, pp. 524-537
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Political, social and economic determinants of corruption
Ghaniy, Nafi; Hastiadi, Fithra Faisal - In: International journal of economics and financial issues … 7 (2017) 4, pp. 144-149
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Tax evasion and growth: a banking approach
Gillman, Max (contributor); Kejak, Michal (contributor) - 2008
The paper formalizes the relation between flat taxes and growth when there is a competitive equilibrium tax evasion. A decentralized tax evasion service is supplied by the banking sector. The bank production function follows the financial intermediation microfoundation approach, with deposits as...
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Tax Evasion, Firm Dynamics and Growth
Bobbio, Emmanuele - 2017
Italy's growth performance has been lacklustre in the last two decades. The economy has a low R&D intensity; firms are smaller and less likely to grow or exit than firms in other advanced countries; the shadow economy is large. I show how these features arise simultaneously in a Schumpeterian...
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