Designing and implementing a system of taxation must determine reducing losses to producers and buyers. Lowering tax rates and reducing income tax help to stimulate supply. The intensity of the effects of the tax system on goods market is determined by elasticity of demand and offer. Assessment...

This paper studies the role of technology in local-government tax collection capacity in the developing world. We first conduct a new census of all local governments in Ghana to document a strong association between technology use and property tax billing, collection and enforcement. We then...

We show how to use field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) and their associated high-level synthesis (HLS) compilers to solve heterogeneous agent models with incomplete markets and aggregate uncertainty (Krusell and Smith, 1998). We document that the acceleration delivered by one single FPGA is...