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We evaluate the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Combining reduced-form estimates from tax data with a global investment … tax change increases 20% versus a no-change baseline. Due to novel foreign incentives, foreign capital of U … foreign capital. In the model, the long-run effect on domestic capital in general equilibrium is 7% and the tax revenue …
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spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro- FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction …
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foreign direct investment (FDI) dynamics at different levels of aggregation as well as at firm level. We propose a theoretical … reduction in FDI resulting from both physical and transition risks but an ambiguous interaction effect of these risks with … we do not find consistent evidence for statistically significant effects of physical and transition risks on FDI. However …
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We introduce a general quantifiable framework to study the location decisions of multinational firms. In the model, firms choose in which locations to pay the fixed costs of setting up production, taking into account potential complementarities among production locations. The firm's location...
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highly public lives, with some achieving superstar status. Despite growing inequality, billionaires face effective tax rates … lower than the average American. Is this due to a lack of public support for taxation? Is it due to misperceptions about … treatments would positively affect the demand for taxation, most treatments have a null or negative effect. Providing information …
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directed toward this sector are tax policies. Yet most economic analysis of the optimal tax treatment of charitable giving is … ad hoc, treating it as a subject unto itself. This article advances a different approach: integrating the tax treatment … of charitable giving into the optimal income tax framework that has been developed over the past half century. The …
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This essay highlights the effects of radical transformations in the liberal characteristics of the regimes on foreign direct investors. To focus on the common patterns in the effects on foreign direct investment, of liberal vs. illiberal regime change, the essay spotlights the tale of two...
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We construct a dynamic general equilibrium model of foreign direct investment (FDI) and foreign technology adoption …, incorporating adoption barriers, international technology spillover, and relative price advantages. A higher FDI conversion efficacy …, a lower adoption barrier, or a stronger international technology spillover, together with a lower relative price of FDI …
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This paper defines risk-on risk-off (RORO), an elusive terminology in pervasive use, as the variation in global investor risk aversion. Our high-frequency RORO index captures time-varying investor risk appetite across multiple dimensions: advanced economy credit risk, equity market volatility,...
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We study capital controls on outflows (CCOs) in situations of macroeconomic and financial distress. We present novel empirical evidence indicating that CCO implementation is associated with crises and declines in GDP growth. We then develop a theoretical framework that is consistent with such...
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