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Does Foreign Aid Reduce Tax Revenue? Further Evidence, John Thornton
Does Foreign Aid Reduce Tax Revenue? Further Evidence, John Thornton
John Thornton
A common criticism of foreign aid is that it reduces domestic tax effort. Empirical research on the issue has been hampered by the failure to tackle endogeneity issues effectively. We use measures of geographical and cultural distance to donor countries as instrumental variables to uncover the causal effect of aid on tax revenue in a panel of 93 countries. The tax to GDP ratio is found to decrease following aid inflows. This reduction in tax effort is statistically and economically significant; a one SD increase in aid causes a 0.52 percentage point drop in the tax-to-GDP ratio. The results indicate …
The (Small) Blessing Of Foreign Aid: Further Evidence On Aid's Impact On Democracy, John Thornton
The (Small) Blessing Of Foreign Aid: Further Evidence On Aid's Impact On Democracy, John Thornton
John Thornton
In an empirical contribution to the literature of foreign aid, we estimate the impact of foreign aid on democracy in a panel of 93 developing economies during 1971–2010. We find that foreign aid promotes democracy, with the result robust to different estimation methodologies and control variables and to instrumenting for foreign aid.
Deposit Insurance And Private Capital Inflows: Further Evidence, John Thornton, Yener Altunbaş
Deposit Insurance And Private Capital Inflows: Further Evidence, John Thornton, Yener Altunbaş
John Thornton
We use a simple differences-in-differences technique to exam- ine whether adopting explicit deposit insurance impacts on the scale of private capital inflows to developing economies. We present evidence suggesting that these inflows improved more in countries that adopted deposit insurance than in countries that did not adopt it.