This dissertation consists of three essays examining and analyzing Michigan property assessment practices. The first essay estimates the property assessment expenditure function for Michigan local government (townships and cities) using panel data with 1,310 governmental units f…
This thesis analyses the impact of tax policy on firms' leverage ratios in a balanced panel of 129 medium-sized listed companies from II European countries from 1993 to 2005. A general model of company leverage is applied within which King's tax ratios are used to capture tax po…
This book analyses the reform of Greece's public revenue administration promoted by its international lenders under the successive bailout agreements put in place since 2010. In particular, it shows how an integral part of the finance ministry was converted into an independent a…
Le financement de l'État est à notre époque un acte d'une très grande complexité. Les gouvernements et les diverses administrations du secteur public doivent tirer leurs revenus d'une variété de sources dont la productivité est influencée par des facteurs en changement constant.…
Le financement de l'État est à notre époque un acte d'une très grande complexité. Les gouvernements et les diverses administrations du secteur public doivent tirer leurs revenus d'une variété de sources dont la productivité est influencée par des facteurs en changement constant.…
"The intellectual challenges facing central bankers are reflected in this monograph, The author worked as an economist in the Monetary and Economic Department of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS), but also as an international mediator, in the Secretariat of the G10 Mi…
"Jonathan Gruber's market-leading Public Finance and Public Policy was the first textbook to truly reflect the way public policy is created, implemented, and researched. Like no other text available, it integrated real-world empirical work and coverage of transfer programs and s…
"Jonathan Gruber's market-leading Public Finance and Public Policy was the first textbook to truly reflect the way public policy is created, implemented, and researched. Like no other text available, it integrated real-world empirical work and coverage of transfer programs and s…
The Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes is the multilateral framework within which work in the area of tax transparency and exchange of information is carried out by over 100 jurisdictions which participate in the work of the Global Forum on…
This dissertation considers two distinct issues in macroeconomics. The first is the effect of tax changes on the level of productivity of an economy and the second concerns the implications of cross-national migration for long-run growth and welfare. In the first chapter, I anal…
This study examines the effect of the policies of the government on peasant land tenure during the mid-nineteenth century. According to the literature on rural Egypt, the government harshly exploited the peasants while paying virtually no attention to their welfare. The result o…
The present quantitative study explored the relationship between the application of the performance measurement system and the ability of the decision-makers of a government revenue agency of the Republic of Azerbaijan to detect the events that could harm the operations of the e…
The ongoing revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa represent a turning point in the political systems of these predominantly Muslim countries. This dissertation argues that the variation in the type of the social movements these populaces adopted is partly a function of…