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World Bank
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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.
Topics: Population, Poverty, Free trade, Productivity, Commercial policy
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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Name | H-index | Papers | Citations |
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Joseph E. Stiglitz | 164 | 1142 | 152469 |
Barry M. Popkin | 157 | 751 | 90453 |
Dan J. Stein | 142 | 1727 | 132718 |
Asli Demirguc-Kunt | 137 | 429 | 78166 |
Elinor Ostrom | 126 | 430 | 104959 |
David Scott | 124 | 1561 | 82554 |
Ross Levine | 122 | 398 | 108067 |
Barry Eichengreen | 116 | 949 | 51073 |
Martin Ravallion | 115 | 570 | 55380 |
Kenneth H. Mayer | 115 | 1351 | 64698 |
Angus Deaton | 110 | 363 | 66325 |
Timothy Besley | 103 | 368 | 45988 |
Lawrence H. Summers | 102 | 285 | 58555 |
Shang-Jin Wei | 101 | 415 | 39112 |
Thorsten Beck | 99 | 373 | 62708 |