This review of the book by Thomas Piketty, the capital in the XXI century, presents the central themes of the work and exposes its scope on the relationship between inequality and wealth. In particular a positive reflections on the progressive tax is added.

The aim of paper is to investigate the impact of digitalisation from public services on tax evasion. The analysis targets the European Union 27 (EU-27) member states over the period 2015-2019 by using panel estimators. The findings prove a nonlinear relationship between digitalisation from...

This paper reports empirical evidence supporting the hypothesis that family ties should be listed among the causes of tax evasion. In societies where the power of the family is very high, the quality of public institutions tends to be low. This connection shapes the behavior of taxpayers and...

As the most populous nation in Africa, Nigeria is uniquely positioned to reap the benefits of the emerging digital economy. And by accelerating access to digital technologies spurs innovation, efficiency and productivity which brings about choice and opportunities for greater growth and...

During the 2008-2010 financial crisis, OECD and IMF changed the definition of foreign direct investment (FDI) to get better information on intra-company financing activity. The new definition gives financing activities by subsidiary affiliates of multinational companies the same status as...

In this paper, we propose an alternative method that applies the model reduction techniques to the VAR framework when the number of variables is sufficiently large. The relevance of the model reduction in the VAR and SVAR systems comes from that the new trajectories preserve the qualitative...

Accurate network data are essential in fields such as economics, finance, sociology, epidemiology, and computer science. However, real-world constraints often prevent researchers from collect- ing a complete adjacency matrix, compelling them to rely on partial or aggregated information. One...

This paper develops a Mean Group Instrumental Variables (MGIV) estimator for spatial dynamic panel data models with interactive effects, under large N and T asymptotics. Unlike existing approaches that typically impose slope-parameter homogeneity, MGIV accommodates cross-sectional heterogeneity...

The purpose of this paper is to explain the effect that economic sectors exert on the national income of West African countries during the last decade. Since the post-colonial era, agriculture has been the primary and the predominant sector of West African economies. However, since the late...

The last years have seen an explosion in the demand for data science skills. In this paper, I introduce the reader to the term, point out the technological jumps that allowed the rise of its methods, and give an overview of the most common ones. I close by pointing out the strengths and...