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How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities?: Evidence from South African tax registersThis article is currently available for early online view. We study the responsiveness of small- and medium-sized firms to a small-business corporate income tax schedule using population-wide administrative data from South Africa...
Corporate governance Small business TaxationWorking Paper
How do small firms respond to tax schedule discontinuities?: Evidence from South African tax registersIn this paper we study the effects of various tax schedule discontinuities on the behavior of small firms using high-quality and population-wide tax register data from South Africa...
Corporate governance Small business TaxationJournal Special Issue
Experiments in Development EconomicsIn recent years, experimental methods have been both highly celebrated, and roundly criticized, as a means of addressing core questions in the social sciences. They have received particular attention in the analysis of development interventions...
Corporate governance Economic development Field experimentsJournal Article
Ethnic Politics in Ranked and Unranked Systems: an Exploratory AnalysisThis article explores how ethnic politics may operate differently in societies with “ranked” versus “unranked” ethnic systems, where ethnicity and class correlate closely versus very little...
Corporate governance Ethnic relations Public goodsBlog
From the Editor's Desk (June 2013)
29 June 2013 Tony Addison The June-July summer issue of Angle comes to you amid the 19 hours daylight of the Finnish mid-summer...
Econometric models (Economic development) Agriculture ChildrenBlog
From the Editor's Desk (May 2013) 9 May 2013 Tony Addison With May ending, we head into a very busy June for UNU-WIDER (and midsummer). Next week we are back in Stockholm at Sida for the ReCom results meeting on ‘Aid, climate change, and the environment ’...
Econometric models (Economic development) Climatic changes Corporate governanceWorking Paper
Out with the Sleaze, in with the Ease: Insufficient for Entrepreneurial Development?Improved governance and lower start-up costs may not be sufficient for encouraging the type of entrepreneurship that matters for economic growth...
Business enterprises Corporate governance Economic developmentBook Chapter
Corporate Governance, Innovative Enterprise, and Economic DevelopmentFrom the book: Institutional Change and Economic Development
Business enterprises Corporate governance Economic developmentWorking Paper
Corporate Governance, Innovative Enterprise, and Economic DevelopmentThe notion that good corporate governance means maximizing shareholder value derives from the neoclassical theory of the market economy...
Business enterprises Corporate governance Economic developmentJournal Article
Bankruptcy Proceedings for Sovereign State InsolvencyPart of Journal Special Issue Development Financing
Bankruptcy Capital market Corporate governanceBook Chapter
Ownership Reform in the Absence of Crisis: China's Township, Village and Private EnterprisesFrom the book: Small and Medium Enterprises in Transitional Economies
Corporate governance Government business enterprises Post-communismBook Chapter
Institutional Investors, Corporate Ownership, and Corporate Governance: Global PerspectivesFrom the book: Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
Corporate governance Financial institutions, International InvestmentsBook Chapter
Adaptive Efficiency and the Evolving Diversity of Enterprise Ownership and Governance Forms: An OverviewFrom the book: Ownership and Governance of Enterprises
Business enterprises Corporate governance Industrial organization (Economic theory)Working Paper
Bankruptcy Proceedings for Sovereign State InsolvencyThe paper examines the main issues involved in translating domestic bankruptcy procedures to the sovereign context...
Bankruptcy Capital market Corporate governanceJournal Article
Financing the New Economy: Financial Institutions and Corporate GovernancePart of Journal Special Issue The New Economy
Corporate governance Finance TechnologyWorking Paper
Institutional Investors, Corporate Ownership, and Corporate Governance: Global PerspectivesWe examine the role of institutional investors in financial markets and in corporate governance...
Corporate governance Financial institutions, International Investments