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This paper uses the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey (RLMS) from 1998 to 2004 to analyze the effect of previous informal economy activities on the creation of official entrepreneurship. We find that previous participation in the informal economy is positively associated with the...
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. However, formal workers must pay progressive income taxes. I calibrate my model to Brazil and assess the effects of education …
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I study tax avoidance along the income distribution based on micro data from the Income and Consumption Survey (EVS) for the year 2013. The richness of the survey concerning income, taxes and expenditures is exploited by modelling the German tax code in terms of the items available in the EVS....
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This paper considers the welfare implications of a tax on real estate transfers. A theoretical analysis shows how the discouragement of mutually beneficial transactions as well as tax- sheltering activities give rise to a welfare loss that can be estimated using the empirical elasticity of the...
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We employ an event study methodology to investigate the stock price reaction around the day of the political decision to include a country-by-country reporting obligation for EU financial institutions. We do not find significant abnormal returns for the banks affected. Sample splits according to...
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Since early 2008 interim trade agreements between the EU and six regions of ACP countries (respectively sub-groups within the region) are in force. These agreements could be stepping stones towards full Economic Partnership Agreements between the EU and all ACP countries. We estimate the welfare...
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This paper makes an econometric analysis of the determinants of Brazil’s pulp exports. The time period from 1980 to … currency and lagged pulp exports. It was observed that Brazil’s pulp exports have responded little to price fluctuation … words: exports, pulp, econometric model, Brazil. …
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of charcoal production in Brazil during the time period from 1980 to 2007. Both statistic and interpretative analysis of … production in the Northern and Northeastern Brazil are mainly conducted by small producers making use of native forests; (4th …) also in Northern and Northeastern Brazil, independent producers of pig iron are predominating (exporting most of their …
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Asia, highlighting the Chinese growth. However, Brazil has not established any trade policy to take advantage of this … halt the trade among Brazil and Eastern Asian countries and how important is this trade for the Brazilian development … Brazilian products, answering for half of the Brazilian exports to that region in 2008; (c) the Japanese share on Brazil …
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The goal of this paper is to carry out two outcome evaluations of the northeast regional fund (FNE) in Brazil. With … significant effect on GDP per capita growth at the municipal (macro) level and thus reduce the regional inequalities in Brazil. …
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