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Taxation, Corruption and the Exchange Rate Regime

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  • Carsten Hefeker

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The paper analyzes the relation between institutional quality, such as corruption, in a country and its monetary regime. It is shown that a credibly fixed exchange rate to a low inflation country, like a currency board, can reduce corruption and improve the fiscal system. A monetary union, however, has ambiguous effects. I find that that there is convergence between countries with regard to the level of corruption.

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Paper provided by Philipps-Universität Marburg, Faculty of Business Administration and Economics, Department of Economics (Volkswirtschaftliche Abteilung) in its series MAGKS Papers on Economics with number 200911.

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Length: 24 pages
Date of creation: 2009
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Publication status: Forthcoming in
Handle: RePEc:mar:magkse:200911

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Keywords: Exchange Rate Regime; Monetary Policy; Fiscal Policy; Seigniorage; Corruption; Developing and Transition Countries.;

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Cited by:
  1. Pierre-Henri Faure, 2011. "Does the fight against corruption require international cooperation?," Working Papers hal-00610523, HAL.
  2. Pierre Faure, 2011. "A note on poor-institution traps in international fiscal policy games," Economics Bulletin, AccessEcon, vol. 31(1), pages 375-387.
  3. Katherina Popkova, 2011. "Can the exchange rate regime influence corruption?," Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge 148-11, Universität Siegen, Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Wirtschaftsinformatik und Wirtschaftsrecht.
  4. Dai, Meixing & Sidiropoulos, Moïse & Spyromitros, Eleftherios, 2010. "Fiscal policy, institutional quality and central bank transparency," MPRA Paper 23766, University Library of Munich, Germany.

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