The Eubank findings on taxation, political accountability and foreign aid have had an
important influence on academic and policymaking debates. Eubank has warned that his …

This article complements existing literature on the aid-institutions nexus by focusing on
political rights, aid volatilities, and the post-Berlin Wall period. Our findings show that, while …

The subject of foreign aid remains widely debated in academic and policy-making circles.
There has been a recent stream of studies raising doubts about the mechanisms by which …

We assemble more pieces on the puzzle of the aid-corruption nexus. In essence, we extend
the debate on the effect of foreign aid on corruption by providing evidence on dynamic …

This study examines the hypothesis that foreign aid dilutes the positive role of taxation on
political governance. The empirical evidence is based on the Generalised Method of …

This paper puts figures to the facts of Eubank (2012), a recently celebrated paper in the
Journal of Development Studies. We investigate the underpinning Somaliland-based …

Our inability to fully predict the complexity of tax behavior stems from the fact that tax
evasion, by its very nature, is difficult to observe. The illegality of underreporting taxable …

Ringrazio il Prof. Silvano Belligni, il Tutor che mi ha seguito e guidato in questo sforzo di
ricerca. Ringrazio il Prof. Alfio Mastropaolo per la fiducia che ha riposto in me fin dal primo …

The policy debate has been shifting from the finance-growth nexus to the finance-inequality
relationship. In the transition from Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to Sustainable …

Globalization has been recognized as the principal force currently dominating the economic
universe. It upholds to illuminate the world with economic prosperity and seeks a victory of …