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World Bank

OtherWashington D.C., District of Columbia, United States
About: World Bank is a other organization based out in Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Poverty. The organization has 7813 authors who have published 21594 publications receiving 1198361 citations. The organization is also known as: World Bank, WB & The World Bank.


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors jointly analyzed the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership on bank performance in Argentina in the 1990s and found that state-owned banks have poor long-term performance, those undergoing privatization had particularly poor performance beforehand (selection effect), and these banks dramatically improved following privatization.
Abstract: We jointly analyze the static, selection, and dynamic effects of domestic, foreign, and state ownership on bank performance. We argue that it is important to include indicators of all the relevant governance effects in the same model. “Nonrobustness” checks (which purposely exclude some indicators) support this argument. Using data from Argentina in the 1990s, our strongest and most robust results concern state ownership. State-owned banks have poor long-term performance (static effect), those undergoing privatization had particularly poor performance beforehand (selection effect), and these banks dramatically improved following privatization (dynamic effect). However, much of the measured improvement is likely due to placing nonperforming loans into residual entities, leaving “good” privatized banks.

450 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present new data on effective corporate income tax rates in 85 countries in 2004 and show that corporate tax rates are correlated with investment in manufacturing but not services, as well as with the size of the informal economy.
Abstract: 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 domestic firm. In a cross-section of countries, our estimates of the effective corporate tax rate have a large adverse impact on aggregate investment, FDI, and entrepreneurial activity. Corporate tax rates are correlated with investment in manufacturing but not services, as well as with the size of the informal economy. The results are robust to the inclusion of many controls.

447 citations

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Gershon Feder, Roger Slade1
TL;DR: A dynamic model of diffusion of a new technology involving a variable input highlights the role of active information accumulation, which entails costs, and provides a possible explanation to the often observed lag in adoption of innovations by smaller farmers.
Abstract: This paper presents a dynamic model of diffusion of a new technology involving a variable input. The model highlights the role of active information accumulation, which entails costs. It generates several hypotheses regarding the likely pattern of adoption and use of the variable input over time by farmers of differing holding sizes and different access to information. It provides a possible explanation to the often observed lag in adoption of innovations by smaller farmers. Analysis of data from India on knowledge and adoption of several practices yields results which are generally consistent with the hypotheses suggested by the theoretical framework.

447 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors trace the content, scope and relatively short history of modern social innovation research across disciplines by applying network and bibliometric analyses, and explore their relevance to innovation studies.

447 citations

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TL;DR: In this paper, an analytic framework for tracing three waves of efforts to provide key public services in developing countries is provided, and the authors argue that persistent (though not universal) failure has been the product of the imperatives of large bureaucracies to discount decisions that are inherently both discretionary and transaction-intensive (and thus less able to be codified and controlled).

446 citations


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NameH-indexPapersCitations
Joseph E. Stiglitz1641142152469
Barry M. Popkin15775190453
Dan J. Stein1421727132718
Asli Demirguc-Kunt13742978166
Elinor Ostrom126430104959
David Scott124156182554
Ross Levine122398108067
Barry Eichengreen11694951073
Martin Ravallion11557055380
Kenneth H. Mayer115135164698
Angus Deaton11036366325
Timothy Besley10336845988
Lawrence H. Summers10228558555
Shang-Jin Wei10141539112
Thorsten Beck9937362708
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No. of papers from the Institution in previous years
YearPapers
202330
202281
2021491
2020594
2019604
2018637