Remittances and Public Finances: Evidence from Oil-Price Shocks
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2017.09.009
Abstract: We study the effect of inflowing remittances - a major source of capital for many countries - on tax-revenues and tax-policy. Instrumenting remittances with changes in the oil-price interacted with a country's distance to oil-producing… read more here.
Keywords: tax; remittances public; oil price; income tax ... See more keywords