Andris Saulītis, PhD
@saulics.bsky.social
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoc at the Collegio Carlo Alberto. If not in Italy thinking about tax morale and household finance decisions, field or other experiments, I am simply walking my two greyhounds in Latvian forests. PhD from EUI, MA from NSSR.
A new approach estimates Latvia's shadow economy at 20% of GDP (1999–2020) using VAT data. LV also shows the largest fluctuations (with ES), called the "Victor Hugo" effect. Will this new method become as important as models by Schneider et al. or Putniņš & Sauka?https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvaf006
Rethinking the Informal Economy and the Hugo Effect
Abstract. This paper offers a new approach to measuring the size of the informal economy based on VAT data for the European Union. Although data intensive,
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February 12, 2025 at 5:02 PM
A new approach estimates Latvia's shadow economy at 20% of GDP (1999–2020) using VAT data. LV also shows the largest fluctuations (with ES), called the "Victor Hugo" effect. Will this new method become as important as models by Schneider et al. or Putniņš & Sauka?https://doi.org/10.1093/jeea/jvaf006
Working on experiments? I highly recommend applying by Feb 1st for this conference in Valencia on May 22-24! The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences brings together scientists from various disciplines and features great keynote speakers. See you there?
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IMEBESS 2025
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January 28, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Working on experiments? I highly recommend applying by Feb 1st for this conference in Valencia on May 22-24! The International Meeting on Experimental and Behavioral Social Sciences brings together scientists from various disciplines and features great keynote speakers. See you there?
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A Faustian deal? It took 666 days from my commentary in news portal DELFI critiquing the sludges in Latvia's consumer debt relief law for new amendments to come into force, removing them. Now, more people qualify and there are less bureaucratic burdens.
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Saeima atvieglo parādu dzēšanu personām ar zemiem ienākumiem
Lai vēl plašākai iedzīvotāju daļai būtu iespēja dzēst savas kredītsaistības, Saeima ceturtdien, 19.decembrī, galīgajā lasījumā pieņēma grozījumus Fiziskās personas atbrīvošanas no parādsaistībām likum...
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January 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
A Faustian deal? It took 666 days from my commentary in news portal DELFI critiquing the sludges in Latvia's consumer debt relief law for new amendments to come into force, removing them. Now, more people qualify and there are less bureaucratic burdens.
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Reposted by Andris Saulītis, PhD
Fascinating recent work highlighting that "...the larger the share of national income and wealth going to the top one percent and top 10% of the population, the more likely the democracy is to erode."
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www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
PNAS
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...
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January 8, 2025 at 3:48 PM
Fascinating recent work highlighting that "...the larger the share of national income and wealth going to the top one percent and top 10% of the population, the more likely the democracy is to erode."
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
Sākam jaunus tīklus apgūt ar vecām idejām.
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Andris Saulītis | Vērtīgākās dāvanas nepiegādā Ziemassvētku vecītis
Ja dāvanas apliktu ar nodokli, mums nevajadzētu labdarības akcijās vākt miljonus.
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December 27, 2024 at 7:14 PM
Sākam jaunus tīklus apgūt ar vecām idejām.
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