We examine the impact of the last five decades of financial globalization on world GDP and income distribution, using a … pattern Unbalanced Financial Globalization. We then simulate a counterfactual trajectory of the world economy where the RKO … wedges are fixed at their pre-globalization levels. We find that unbalanced financial globalization led to a worsening of …

We quantify the impact of barriers to international investment, using a novel multi-country dynamic general equilibrium … asset positions. We estimate this gravity equation using recently developed foreign investment data that have been restated … to account for offshore investment and financing vehicles. We show that a parsimonious implementation of the model with …

This paper analyzes the role of Thin-Capitalization rules for capital structure choice and investment decisions of … investment but also their tax-sensitivity. An empirical investigation of leverage and investment reported for affiliates of …. While Thin-Capitalization rules are found to be effective in restricting debt finance, investment is found to be more …

interest owed to foreign affiliates would not only affect multinationals' capital structure choice but also investment. An …-capitalization rules on capital structure choice and investment in the OECD and some further European countries in the time period between … loans. However, investment is found to be adversely affected …