Tax revenues under World Religions: a Panel Analysis

Mutascu, Mihai (2012): Tax revenues under World Religions: a Panel Analysis. Forthcoming in:

Abstract

The aim of paper is to investigate the impact of major religions of the world on collected tax revenues, using a panel-mode approach, with 123 countries, for the period 1996-2010. The paper extends the literature in the field showing how different types of religion influence the level of tax revenues, under an extended set of economic and socio-political control variables. The main finding reveals that collected tax revenues tend to increase under Protestant and Muslim religions.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Tax revenues, religion, connections, panel-model, effects
• Subjects: Z - Other Special Topics > Z1 - Cultural Economics ; Economic Sociology ; Economic Anthropology > Z12 - Religion; H - Public Economics > H2 - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue > H20 - General; C - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods > C2 - Single Equation Models ; Single Variables > C23 - Panel Data Models ; Spatio-temporal Models

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