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Taxes, Prisons, and CFOs: The Effects of Increased Punishment on Corporate Tax Compliance in Ecuador
This paper takes advantage of a rich firm level data set from Ecuador to analyze the effects of a reform in 2007 that introduced imprisonment for tax evasion..
The Foster-Greer-Thorbecke (FGT) Poverty Measures: Twenty-Five Years Later
Twenty-five years ago, the FGT class of decomposable poverty measures was introduced in Foster, Greer, and Thorbecke [54]. The present study provides a retrospective...
We introduce new approaches to research on poverty traps, focusing on changes in patterns of equilibria over time and across regions, applied to the Ethiopia....
Do Cheaters Bunch Together? Profit Taxes, Withholding Rates and Tax Evasion
We use firm-level administrative data from Ecuador to study the implications of ‘reverse withholding’ for firms’ tax behavior. Withholding does not affect tax....
On Measuring Vulnerability to Poverty
There is a growing interest on dynamic and broader concepts of deprivation such as vulnerability, which takes in to account the destitution of individuals from...
How China’s Employment Problems Became Trade Problems: China, Labour Law and the Rule of Law
In this article, I focus on the potential trade spillovers of Chinese policies to maintain employment. Chinese leaders are determined to maintain employment and...
Unexpected Bedfellows: The GATT, the WTO, and Some Democratic Rights
The world’s most misunderstood international institution, the World Trade Organization (WTO) sits in a grand palace on the shores of Lake Geneva. This.....
How Well Does ‘Core’ CPI Measure Long-Run Inflation
We decompose core CPI and the food and energy CPI measures into permanent and transitory components using a correlated unobserved components model, to examine...
How Well Does “Core” CPI Capture Permanent Price Changes?
We decompose core CPI and the food and energy CPI measures into permanent and transitory components using a correlated unobserved components model, to examine....
Nigeria is awash in oil; Mali is flush with gold reserves; and Peru has abundant copper. These resources belong to the people, and thus, Nigerians, Malians, and..
