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Maria Melody Garcia
Researcher at Sapienza University of Rome
Publications - 4
Citations - 96
Maria Melody Garcia is an academic researcher from Sapienza University of Rome. The author has contributed to research in topics: Revenue & Polity. The author has an hindex of 4, co-authored 4 publications receiving 73 citations.
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Do Democracies Tax More? Political Regime Type and Taxation
TL;DR: The authors investigated the relationship between political regimes and tax-to-gross domestic product ratio, using a panel dataset of 131 countries and covering the period 1990-2008, finding that the character of the polity affects taxation, but there is no linear trend in favour of democracy.
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Do Democracies Tax More? Political Regime Type and Taxation
TL;DR: This article investigated the relationship between political regimes and tax-to-GDP ratio, using a panel dataset of 131 countries and covering the period 1990-2008, and found that the character of the polity affects taxation, but there is no linear trend in favour of democracy.
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Tax Collection in Developing Countries – New Evidence on Semi-Autonomous Revenue Agencies (SARAs)
TL;DR: In this paper, the results of a panel analysis of local tax collection in Peru between 1998 and 2011 were presented, showing that municipalities with semi-autonomous revenue agencies (SARAs) collect more revenue than those with conventional tax administrations.
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Tax Collection in Developing Countries – New Evidence on Semi-Autonomous Revenue Agencies (SARAs)
TL;DR: In this article, the results of a panel analysis of local tax collection in Peru between 1998 and 2011 show that municipalities with SARAs collect more revenue than those with conventional tax administrations.