Many production firms use intermediary trading firms to export indirectly. This paper uses Chinese export data at the transaction level to investigate the tax evasion motive through indirect trade. The paper provides strong evidence that, under Chinas partial export value-added tax rebate...

NOTE: The following is a description of the paper and not the actual abstract. Developing countries have a variety of governmental and trade policies which are intended to affect the return to capital and also distort factor prices. These distortions are significant and exist even before the...

Developing countries have a variety of governmental and trade policies which are intended to affect the return to capital. In our estimation of the return to capital in Colombia we attempt to account for taxes, both direct and indirect, governmental subsidies, and trade taxes and subsidies. We...