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    • Essays in Public Finance and Development Economics 

      Naritomi, Joana (2014-06-06)
      This dissertation comprises three chapters. The first chapter investigates whether consumers can help governments improve firm compliance with the Value Added Tax. It exploits quasi-experimental variation from a government ...
    • Forbearance as Redistribution: Enforcement Politics in Urban Latin America 

      Holland, Alisha Caroline (2014-06-06)
      Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations, and when do they enforce them? Conventional wisdom is that state weakness erodes enforcement, particularly in the developing world. In contrast, ...