Footnote:
Nach Informationen von SSRN wurde die ursprüngliche Fassung des Dokuments May 3, 2017 erstellt
Description:
A comparison of "Governance and Taxes" with a previous working paper version reveals a number of irregularities that together suggest the analysis was not performed as described in the published version. In particular, the two versions claim to use different main empirical specifications, but the numbers in all 11 tables are exactly the same in both versions. An assessment of other comparisons between the two versions suggests that it is unlikely that these irregularities are unintentional errors. Instead, a straightforward explanation of these anomalies is data falsification: the working paper version accurately describes the main specification, and the published version misstates the main specification. I conclude by demonstrating that the main result, when accurately described, fails a simple placebo test and is therefore spurious