Browsing by Author "McLiesh, Caralee"

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    • Debt Enforcement Around the World 

      Djankov, Simeon; Hart, Oliver; McLiesh, Caralee; Shleifer, Andrei (University of Chicago Press, 2008)
      Insolvency practitioners from 88 countries describe how debt enforcement will proceed against an identical hotel about to default on its debt. We use the data on time, cost, and the likely disposition of the assets ...

    • The Effect of Corporate Taxes on Investment and Entrepreneurship 

      Shleifer, Andrei; Djankov, Simeon; McLiesh, Caralee; Rmalho, Rita; Ganser, Tim Christian (American Economic Association, 2010)
      We present new data on effective corporate income tax rates in 85 countries in 2004. The data come from a survey, conducted jointly with PricewaterhouseCoopers, of all taxes imposed on "the same" standardized mid-size ...

    • Private credit in 129 countries? 

      Djankov, Simeon; McLiesh, Caralee; Shleifer, Andrei (Elsevier BV, 2007)
      We investigate cross-country determinants of private credit, using new data on legal creditor rights and private and public credit registries in 129 countries. We find that both creditor protection through the legal system ...