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Ranis, Gustav - 2012

paper puts to rest some objections to labor surplus theory based on "red herrings" and then addresses the substantive …

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Trade and special interest politics, enforcement policy and illegal drugs : three essays

Roy, Suryadipta - 2005

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Institutional quality and government efficiency

Chong, Alberto (contributor); … - 2007

Poorer countries have a much smaller public sector and correspondingly a smaller tax burden than richer countries, yet, their economic performance has not been necessarily better. Using a simple model, this paper suggests that the growth and welfare effects of taxation are mediated through...

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U.S.-China trade tensions and their possible effects on stability of global food markets

Erokhin, Vasily - 2021

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Estimating border effects : the impact of spatial aggregation

Coughlin, Cletus Charles; Novy, Dennis - 2016

on border effects in domestic and international trade. Our theory shows that larger countries are systematically … effects. We test our theory on domestic and international trade flows at the level of U.S. states. Our results confirm the …Trade data are typically reported at the level of regions or countries and are therefore aggregates across space. In …

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Entrepreneurship, Corruption, and the Size of U.S. Underground Economies

Wiseman, Travis - 2015

Using state-level data on productive and unproductive entrepreneurship, shadow economy size, and public official corruption, this paper examines whether formal sector productive (unproductive) entrepreneurial activity is associated with lower (higher) levels of informal economic activity....

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