We compare two approaches to increasing tax revenue: tax administration and tax rates. We show that when Indonesia moved top regional firms…
We distinguish between ideational and interest-based appeals to voters on the supply side of politics, and integrate the Keynes-Hayek…
Economists have generally underplayed until recently globalization’s role in exacerbating inequality in the advanced economies. But in the…
Can taxes on consumption redistribute in developing countries? Contrary to
consensus, we show that taxing consumption is progressive once…
Using Fontana et al.’s (2019) database, we analyze levels and trends in the global distribution of authorship in economics journals,…
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To investigate barriers to universal health insurance in developing countries, we designed a randomized experiment involving about 6,000…
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A little over a year ago, the European Union’s (EU) political leaders agreed on an unprecedented fiscal package – dubbed ‘Next Generation…
Finance forms a necessary input for production, one so central that it was placed atop the decision tree in the original Growth Diagnostics…
Coordination Failures in Adopting New Technological Capabilities as the Binding Constraint to Growth
The process of structural transformation that has accompanied economic success stories requires an expansion of the technological…