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The unique feature of the rural credit market in China is the dominance of zero collateral and zero-interest reciprocal … lending and its long-term coexistence with the formal loan. This paper investigates the association between formal credit … constraint and prevalence of reciprocal loans in rural China. Based on the identification of rural households' credit constraint …
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Food districts seem to be a phenomenon as widespread as they are somewhat little known and misunderstood. After thirty years of collective thinking and practice, we question what districts in the agricultural and rural domain actually are and whether we are yet to produce a scientifically...
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We review the literature that uses quasi-experimental methods to estimate the elasticity of labour force participation with respect to the financial gain from work. We find a wide range of elasticities, with an average of 0.36. 27 out of 35 papers find elasticities larger than 0.1, providing...
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Many governments use price and tax subsidization to meet social protection objectives. They endeavor to reduce the cost of living for their population-or for a subset of the population-by subsidizing the price of goods or services in lieu of, or in addition to, direct income transfers. While...
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The purpose of this article is to research how companies optimize income tax with the ambition to maintain the achieved sales and profits at the highest possible level. Its purpose is to find out whether companies in Slovakia compensate for higher tax liability by tax loss amortization to reduce...
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In den letzten Jahrzehnten wurden zahlreiche Instrumente zur Förderung von Investitionen entwickelt. Mit diesen Förderinstrumenten sind für die Investoren unterschiedlich hohe Vorteile (Vergünstigungseffekte) verbunden. Die Höhe der Begünstigung hängt von der individuellen Situation des...
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This study examines firms' voluntary disclosure of tax loss carryforward (TLCF) information. We measure the content and presentation of TLCF information by a disclosure score based on hand collected data from annual reports. Our identification strategy employs new proprietary data to control for...
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An issue with estimating the impact of industrial support is that the firms that receive support may be politically connected, introducing omitted variable bias. Applying fixed-effects regressions on Vietnamese panel data containing several proxies for political connectedness to correct this...
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tax credits to low-income working households. The labor tax credit is the most effective package to attenuate the …
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