Search Results - subject:"Trade in services"

Integrating Managerial and Tax Objectives in Transfer Pricing

Baldenius, Tim; Melumad, Nahum D.; Reichelstein, Stefan J. - 2011

This paper examines transfer pricing in multinational firms when individual divisions face different income tax rates. Assuming that a firm decouples its internal transfer price from the arm's length price used for tax purposes, we analyze the effectiveness of alternative pricing rules under...

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Impact of Services Liberalization on Productivity of Manufacturing Firms : Evidence from Ukrainian Firm-Level Data

Shepotylo, Oleksandr; Vakhitov, Volodymyr - 2011

This paper brings new evidence on the impact of services liberalization on performance of manufacturing firms. Using a unique database of Ukrainian firms in 2001-2007, we utilize an external push for liberalization in services sector as a source of exogenous variation to identify the impact of...

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Can English proficiency boost international trade in services?

Lee, Kyounghee - 2011

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CFIUS As A Congressional Notification Service

Zaring, David T. - 2011

How can Congress play a role in formulating national security policy? This Article identifies one way that Congress already plays such a role: in its oversight of executive branch decisions regarding foreign investments in the United States, via the Committee on Foreign Investment in the United...

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An Opportunity to Strengthen Freedom of Enterprise and Free Competition in Spain : The Implementation of the Services Directive (2006/123/CE) in the regional regulation (in Spanish...

Marcos, Francisco - 2011

The implementation of the EU Services Directive (2006/123/CE) should entail a boost of freedom of enterprise and free competition in the services sector in Spain. Although a proper interpretation of both these constitutional principles should have already led to the elimination of many barriers...

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The Importance of Measuring the Delivery of Services via Commercial Presence of Offshore Foreign Affiliates: Some Case Studies from Australian Business Experience

Drake-Brockman, Jane - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2011

defined in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS): cross-border supply, consumption abroad, commercial presence …, and movement of natural persons. The consequence is that the extent of global trade in services is hugely underestimated …

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Trade in Services and Human Development: A First Look at the Links

Shepherd, Ben; Pasadilla, Gloria - Asian Development Bank Institute, Asian Development Bank - 2011

Some services directly produce outputs that are important for human development, such as basic human services. Many other services are important inputs into the production and distribution of goods that are necessary for human development purposes. A more efficient services sector should mean...

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Fog in GATS commitments: Boon or bane?

Adlung, Rudolf; Morrison, Peter; Roy, Martin; Zhang, Weiwei - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2011

The creation of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), in the Uruguay Round, and its entry into force in …

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Services commitments in preferential trade agreements: An expanded dataset

Roy, Martin - Economic Research and Statistics Division (ERSD), World … - 2011

Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) on services have proliferated since 2000. This working paper briefly presents the expansion of the dataset initially developed in Marchetti and Roy (2008). The data permits to assess the extent to which market access commitments undertaken by WTO Members in...

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A Strategic Framework of Liberalising Trade in Services for Pakistan

Gulzar, Ahmed - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 733-770

constraints and limited options, and regulatory changes have greatly expanded the range and scope of trade in services especially … significant increased share in their over-all trade. Pakistan is heading towards liberalisation of trade in services through … research paper develops a strategic framework of liberalising trade in services in 12 categories of services with 26 partner …

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