” Fiscal Decentralisation and Public Investment :The Experience of Latin America” by Luiz de Mello. Originally by CEPAL. The paper concludes that : “The empirical evidence reported in this paper suggests that, controlling for other cross-country determinants of investment,…
Does fiscal decentralisation strengthen social capital? cross-crountry evidence and the experiences of Brasil and Indonesia by Luiz de Mello, published by OECD. This paper tests the hypothesis that, by giving people more voice in the government decision-making process, fiscal…
Are Global Imbalances Sustainable?: Shedding Further Light on the Causes of Current Account Reversals by Luiz de Mello, Pier Carlo Padoan and Linda Rousová , published by OCDE. This paper assesses the sustainability of global imbalances. They find that…
The Brazilian “tax war”: the case of value-added tax competition among the states by Luiz de Mello published by OECD. “This paper tests for horizontal tax competition in the VAT for a sample of Brazilian states in the period…
