README

This repository stores the code to replicate the figures in:

Marketed Tax Avoidance: An Economic Analysis

by

Jiao Li, Duccio Gamannossi degl'Innocenti and Matthew D. Rablen

Reference:

Li, J., Gamannossi degl'Innocenti, D. and Rablen, M.D., 2021. Marketed Tax Avoidance Schemes: An Economic Analysis, forthcoming at the Scandinavian Journal of Economics

Description of files in the Repo

• A_not_eq.R : script to compute and plot Figure 1

• license.txt : license to be applied to the files in the repo

• p_by_W_by_A.R : script to compute and plot Figure 2

• package_setup.R : script to install needed packages

• W0_A_R_by_t_prog.R : script to compute and plot Figure 3

• doc : folder containing the article

  • Marketed Tax Avoidance An Economic Analysis.pdf : article

• fig : folder containing figures produced with the scripts

  • Figure_1(a).pdf : Figure 1(a)
  • Figure_2(a).pdf : Figure 2(a)
  • Figure_2(b).pdf : Figure 2(b)
  • Figure_3(a).pdf : Figure 3(a)
  • Figure_3(b).pdf : Figure 3(b)

• M : folder containing Mathematica notebooks

  • analytics.nb : notebook with the analytical derivations used in the R scripts

• R : folder containing R scripts to be sourced

  • fun.R : script storing all the functions needed to run the main scripts
  • par.R : script storing all the general parameters used in the main scripts

• tikz : folder containing the tikz of the figures

  • Figure 1(a).tex : standalone tikz of Figure 1(a)
  • Figure 2(a).tex : standalone tikz of Figure 2(a)
  • Figure 2(b).tex : standalone tikz of Figure 2(b)
  • Figure 3(a).tex : standalone tikz of Figure 3(a)
  • Figure_3(b).tex : standalone tikz of Figure 3(b)
  • tmp_Figure_1(a) : tikz dictionary of Figure 1(a)
  • tmp_Figure_2(a) : tikz dictionary of Figure 2(a)
  • tmp_Figure_2(b) : tikz dictionary of Figure 2(b)
  • tmp_Figure_3(a) : tikz dictionary of Figure 3(a)
  • tmp_Figure_3(b) : tikz dictionary of Figure 3(b)

Instructions

In order to set up the working environment:

1. Start a new R-project in an empty folder
2. Copy the content of the repo to the project folder
3. Run the script package_setup.R to install the needed packages
4. Run any of the scripts

The scripts have been tested on Win 10, R-4.1.1, RStudio-1.4.1717

The files are distributed under BSD license. For more information, please check the license.txt file.

For any question, suggestion or comment, write to: mail@dgdi.me