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Does tax evasion affect economic crime?
Argentiero, Amedeo; Chiarini, Bruno; Marzano, Elisabetta - 2018
crime that are related to economic determinants: property crimes (including robbery, theft and car theft), fraud and usury … tax evasion positively affects economic crimes. Notably, the elasticity of tax evasion to fraud is related to the size of … adjustment costs. Finally, we find that property crimes, fraud and usury are not influenced by deterrence or clearing …
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The Economics of Payment Card Interchange Fees and the Limits of Regulation
Zywicki, Todd J. - 2014
merchants to shift costs away from their businesses and onto card issuing banks and cardholders. In particular, bank …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013069741
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Credit Cards and Inflation
Geanakoplos, John - 2009
The introduction and widespread use of credit cards increases trading efficiency but, by also increasing the velocity of money, it causes inflation, in the absence of monetary intervention. If the monetary authority attempts to restore pre-credit card price levels by reducing the money supply,...
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Do Banks Pass Through Credit Expansions to Consumers Who Want To Borrow?
Agarwal, Sumit - 2017
credit limits to show that a bank's MPL depends on a small number of parameters that can be estimated using our credit limit … funds on aggregate household borrowing, and highlights the importance of frictions in bank-borrower interactions for …
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The Welfare Effect of Access to Credit
Rojas Breu, Mariana - 2010
I present a model in which credit and outside money can be used as means of payment in order to analyze how access to credit affects welfare when credit markets feature limited participation. Allowing more agents to use credit has an ambiguous effect on welfare because it may make...
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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?
Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2015
We study the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies (1975 - 2009). We find an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months of about one tenth of a standard deviation. A similar effect can neither be detected in...
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Vote buying or (political) business (cycles) as usual?
Aidt, Toke; Asatryan, Zareh; Badalyan, Lusine; … - 2015
We provide new evidence on the short-run effect of elections on monetary aggregates. We study month-to-month fluctuations in the growth rate of M1 in a sample of 85 low and middle income democracies from 1975 to 2009. The evidence shows an increase in the growth rate of M1 during election months...
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Import tariff led export under-invoicing : a paradox
Biswas, Amit K. - 2009
Prolonged worldwide economic depression forces some economists and policy makers to demand for a tougher regulation to protect their domestic economy. If implemented, this may lead to a high tariff and non-tariff regime that ruled the pre-globalised world economy. This paper examines the...
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Doping and cheating in contest-like situations
Kräkel, Matthias (contributor) - 2006
. -- cheating ; contest ; doping ; fraud in research ; tournament …
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Doping in contest-like situations
Kräkel, Matthias - 2005
Individuals who compete in a contest-like situation (for example, in sports, in promotion tournaments, or in an appointment contest) may have an incentive to illegally utilize resources in order to improve their relative positions. We analyze such doping within a tournament game between two...
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