This article contends that previous research has failed to consider resources that are systematically collected by way of informal taxation and channeled to support the provision of public services. Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the markets for stolen auto parts and counterfeit clothing in Greater Buenos Aires, this article describes how state agencies informally tax these economies, and “follows the money” extracted. While a portion of these resources does end up in private pockets, the article shows that a greater share of the resources are directed toward enhancing state performance: welfare programs, everyday police duties, and political activities. An analysis of informal state financing schemes helps us to understand ...
No modern state can exist in the long term without effective taxation. Recent research emerging from...
This PhD investigates the impacts of taxation on state capacity and accountability through comparati...
This paper examines the political economy forces that lead to the creation of the informal sector in...
How states raise revenue is critical to understanding how they govern. Orthodox analyses of the stat...
Economists generally assume that the state has sufficient institutional capacity to support markets ...
Most states of the world are ineffective at implementing policy. State capacity to perform these tas...
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries...
The present collection of essays studies some of the ways in which the interaction of economic and p...
In Chapter 2 of this Thesis, I study the effect of form of government on government policy in electi...
Abstract: Why are some states’ economies more formal than others? This question has critical signifi...
Governments in many industrializing democracies face difficult policy trade-offs. Liberalization and...
This article tackles the feature of optimal public policy such as the level of enforcement and the s...
In spite of the importance of taxation for political and economic development, we know relatively li...
Composed as a mosaic, the present article brings together a series of urban snapshots, by way of eth...
No state can exist in the long term without effective taxation. To be able to execute its various ro...
No modern state can exist in the long term without effective taxation. Recent research emerging from...
This PhD investigates the impacts of taxation on state capacity and accountability through comparati...
This paper examines the political economy forces that lead to the creation of the informal sector in...
How states raise revenue is critical to understanding how they govern. Orthodox analyses of the stat...
Economists generally assume that the state has sufficient institutional capacity to support markets ...
Most states of the world are ineffective at implementing policy. State capacity to perform these tas...
Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries...
The present collection of essays studies some of the ways in which the interaction of economic and p...
In Chapter 2 of this Thesis, I study the effect of form of government on government policy in electi...
Abstract: Why are some states’ economies more formal than others? This question has critical signifi...
Governments in many industrializing democracies face difficult policy trade-offs. Liberalization and...
This article tackles the feature of optimal public policy such as the level of enforcement and the s...
In spite of the importance of taxation for political and economic development, we know relatively li...
Composed as a mosaic, the present article brings together a series of urban snapshots, by way of eth...
No state can exist in the long term without effective taxation. To be able to execute its various ro...
No modern state can exist in the long term without effective taxation. Recent research emerging from...
This PhD investigates the impacts of taxation on state capacity and accountability through comparati...
This paper examines the political economy forces that lead to the creation of the informal sector in...