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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away from Cities?

Ghani, Syed Ejaz - 2014

This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...

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Trade, Insecurity, and Home Bias : an Empirical Investigation

Anderson, James E.; Marcouiller, Douglas - 2021

Corruption and imperfect contract enforcement dramatically reduce trade. This paper estimates the reduction, using a …

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Vertical Integration, Institutional Determinants and Impact : Evidence from China

Fan, Joseph P. H. - 2013

transaction difficulties. But, such environments often also feature highly interventionist government, and even corruption …

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The Invisible Hand and the Grabbing Hand

Frye, Timothy; Shleifer, Andrei - 2021

as the burden of regulation and corruption, are much greater in Moscow. The evidence suggests that the `invisible hand …

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Offshore Jurisdictions (Including Cyprus), Corruption Money Laundering and Russian Round-Trip Investment

Ledyaeva, Svetlana - 2013

In this paper we analyze the link between corruption money laundering and round-trip investment via offshore … (namely, from Cyprus and British Virgin Islands) across Russia and compare them with the benchmark group of genuine foreign … investors in Russia. We further study the determinants of the fraction of round-trip investment in total foreign investment in …

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Monetary Information and Macroeconomic Fluctuations

Boschen, John Fink; Grossman, Herschel I. - 2021

This paper introduces contemporaneously available monetary data into an "equilibrium" model that combines rational expectations, market clearing, and incomplete information about monetary disturbances. Data on the current money stock involve a preliminary estimate that is subject to a subsequent...

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Vat Base Broadening, Self Supply, and the Informal Sector

Piggott, John; Whalley, John - 2021

We develop a general equilibrium tax model to evaluate the impacts of equal yield base broadening in indirect taxes from high rate narrow based (typically manufactures) taxes to broad based taxes (including services) such as a VAT. We capture differences in choice of mode of supply between...

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Monetary Policy in the Information Economy

Woodford, Michael - 2021

This paper considers two challenges that improvements in private-sector information-processing capabilities may pose for the effectiveness of monetary policy. It first considers the consequences of improved information about central-bank actions, and argues that the management of expectations...

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Policies to Promote Growth and Economic Efficiency in Mexico

Arias, Javier - 2010

This paper discusses the problems facing the Mexican economy. It operates under a heavy burden of monopoly and regulation. We focus on two issues that should receive more attention in discussions of Mexican policy. (1) The family is under stress in Mexico and this retards the growth of skills of...

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The Unofficial Economy and Economic Development

La Porta, Rafael - 2010

In developing countries, informal firms (those that are not registered with the government) account for about half of all economic activity. We consider three broad views of the role of such firms in economic development. According to the romantic view, these firms would become the engine of...

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