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Price Effects of the Austrian Fuel Price Fixing Act : A Synthetic Control Study
Becker, Maike; Pfeifer, Gregor; Schweikert, Karsten - 2021
whether they indeed help lower the overall fuel price level is unclear. In this paper, we study the effect of Austria’s Fuel … estimate Austria’s price trends in absence of the intervention. Our empirical results suggest, that immediately after the Fuel … prices appears to be less pronounced and amounts to 6.6% lower prices. Austria’s fuel price regulation seems to have been …
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Designing Instrument Packages for the Low-Carbon Transition : An Evaluation Framework with an Application to Austria
van der Werf, Edwin; Vollebergh, Herman R.J; Vogel, Johanna - 2021
commercial (buildings) sector in an ambitious country, Austria …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013217087
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Service Imports, Workforce Composition, and Firm Performance : Evidence from Finnish Microdata
Ariu, Andrea - 2019
This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work-force composition, and firm characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a significant increase in services imports (2002-2012). We use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012861415
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Trade Costs in Services : Firm Survival, Firm Growth and Implied Changes in Employment
Christen, Elisabeth M. - 2020
This paper provides new insight into the firm-level employment impacts of trade cost changes at the industry level in the Austrian services sector. We apply a two-part model of firm survival (exit) and firm growth. Separate regressions for firm entry rates at the industry-region level complete...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012844212
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Service Offshoring and Export Experience
Berlingieri, Giuseppe; Ornelas, Emanuel; Marcolin, Luca - 2021
Service inputs are a key component of the costs of exporting, and contribute to explain the process of internationalization of firms. A new dataset on the participation of French firms in global value chains reveals that firms with longer export experience in a market are more likely to source...
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Corruption and Access to Socio-Economic Services in Africa
Freytag, Andreas; Riaz, Muhammad Faraz - 2021
Corruption is one of the world’s most widespread political problems. It can be found on international, national and sub-national level. Access to education and other socio-economic services is of utmost importance for all humans. It is still not exclusively based on merit, but often rather...
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Interest income tax evasion, the EU savings directive, and capital market effects
Klautke, Tina; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2008
The Savings Directive has been celebrated as a major political break-through in coordinating taxation in Europe. Against this background, the present paper evaluates the real-world effects of this directive. The directive has left a loophole by providing grandfathering (exemption from...
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Do Multinationals Transplant Their Business Model?
Marin, Dalia - 2019
What determines whether or not multinational firms transplant the mode of organisation to other countries? We embed the theory of knowledge hierarchies in an industry equilibrium model of monopolistic competition to examine how the economic environment may affect the decision of multinational...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012860290
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A Destination-Based Allowance for Corporate Equity
Hebous, Shafik - 2019
Following renewed academic and policy interest in the destination-based principle for taxing profits—particularly through a destination-based cash flow tax (DBCFT)—this paper studies other forms of efficient destination-based taxes. Specifically, it analyzes the Destination-Based Allowance...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892223
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Wages and the Value of Nonemployment
Jäger, Simon - 2019
-experimental variation in nonemployment values arises from four large reforms of unemployment insurance (UI) benefit levels in Austria. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892243