PERAN LEMBAGA KEUANGAN INFORMAL TERHADAP PEMBERDAYAAN KELOMPOK USAHA INFORMAL

Informal Settlements Upgrading: The Gecekondus in Ankara

Informal communication

The typical sender-receiver game studied in the literature assumes that the receiver is uninformed. In reality, the receiver usually relates the sender’s message to her own information obtains a signal about their truthfulness. I analyze a sender-receiver model where both agents have private information and the sender cares to be perceived as honest. If the sender’s reputation concerns are stro...

Informal Taxation.

Informal payments are a frequently overlooked source of local public finance in developing countries. We use microdata from ten countries to establish stylized facts on the magnitude, form, and distributional implications of this "informal taxation." Informal taxation is widespread, particularly in rural areas, with substantial in-kind labor payments. The wealthy pay more, but pay less in perce...

Managing Informal Mathematical Knowledge: Techniques from Informal Logic

Much work in MKM depends on the application of formal logic to mathematics. However, much mathematical knowledge is informal. Luckily, formal logic only represents one tradition in logic, specifically the modeling of inference in terms of logical form. Many inferences cannot be captured in this manner. The study of such inferences is still within the domain of logic, and is sometimes called inf...

Informal Taxation (Web Appendix)

As described in the text, the data used in this paper stems from household surveys from 10 countries around the world, which were selected because they included questions on payments to local public good provision. Since each of the surveys is somewhat di¤erent in terms of sampling and questionnaire design, this section brie‡y describes each of these surveys one by one, including details on the...