Tax fraud is an issue of increasing importance in China. One particularly significant fraud involves excessive claims for the rebate of VAT on exported goods. This fraud has two interesting features. First, it requires the collusion of an intermediary to supply the false documentation that...

It is possible to employ either income or expenditure as the base for personal taxation. A considerable literature has developed that investigates the relative efficiency of these bases. The answer is usually in favor of the expenditure tax since it does not distort the choice between...

Using a dynamic network formation model, solved numerically, we study banks’ rollover decisions. We find that when the existence of linkages between market participants generates an informational externality, the newly formed network is conditioned by past architectures. Moreover, this inertia...