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The quantification of structural reforms : extending the framework to emerging market economies

Égert, Balázs - 2018

outcomes. Lower barriers to foreign trade and investment help MFP. Lower barriers to entry and less pervasive state control of …

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Shadow economies around the world : size, causes, and consequences

Schneider, Friedrich; Enste, Dominik - 1999

Using various methods (currency demand, physical input (electricity) method, model approach), which are discussed and criticized, estimates of the size of the shadow economy in 76 developing, transition and OECD-countries are presented. The average size of a shadow economy varies from 12 percent...

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Shadow economies around the world : new results for 158 countries over 1991-2015

Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2017 - Revised version

Using the MIMIC method, this paper is a first attempt to estimate the size of the shadow economy of 158 countries over the period 1991 up to 2015. In addition to performing a variety of robustness tests, this paper explicitly addresses endogeneity concerns to the use of GDP as cause and...

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Shadow economies around the world : what do we know?

Schneider, Friedrich; Klinglmair, Robert - 2004

Using various statistical procedures, estimates about the size of the shadow economy in 110 developing, transition and OECD countries are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (in percent of official GDP) over 1999-2000 in developing countries is 41 percent, in transition countries...

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Donor ideology and types of foreign aid

Brech, Viktor; Potrafke, Niklas - 2013

We examine how donor government ideology influences the composition of foreign aid flows. We use data for 23 OECD … countries over the period 1960]2009 and distinguish between multilateral and bilateral aid, grants and loans, recipient …

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world : what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich (contributor) - 2006

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Purchasing power parity for developing and developed countries : what can we learn from non-stationary panel data models?

Drine, Imed (contributor); Rault, Christophe (contributor) - 2008

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Why is fiscal policy often procyclical?

Alesina, Alberto (contributor); … - 2005

Many countries, especially developing ones, follow procyclical fiscal policies, namely spending goes up (taxes go down) in booms and spending goes down (taxes go up) in recessions. We provide an explanation for this suboptimal fiscal policy based upon political distortions and incentives for...

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Tax sparing, FDI, and foreign aid : evidence from territorial tax reforms

Azémar, Céline; Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2016

The governments of many developing countries seek to attract inbound foreign direct investment (FDI) through the use of …' residence country tax regime, especially where the residence country imposes worldwide taxation on foreign income. Tax sparing … countries. We also find that these territorial reforms are associated with increases in certain forms of bilateral foreign aid …

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Diasporas and economic development : a review of the evidence and policy

Bahar, Dany - 2020

The paper reviews recent literature on the economics of migration and diasporas, focusing on economic gains and opportunities that these diasporas could represent for home countries. In addition, the paper discusses policies aimed at leveraging this "diaspora capital".

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