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This paper assesses the redistribution of foreign direct investments (FDI) and tax revenues among countries due to … hypothetical bilateral FDI positions in the absence of tax rate differences. In a second step, tax revenue effects are estimated by … assuming a conventional rate of return on investment. For most OECD countries, the effects of tax rate differentials on FDI …
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The determinants of foreign direct investment (FDI) are explored with gravity models, using a Poisson estimator and a … cross-border investment: a reduction of regulatory divergence by one fifth could increase FDI by about 15%. In particular … inward and less outward FDI, and there is some evidence that more complex regulatory procedures reduce inward FDI. …
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. This new study, based on more than 20 million tax records over 10 years, examines the highest income earners in Ireland but … income and pay around 2/3 of all income tax. Unlike other OECD countries, the top 1% has not expanded its gross income share … progressive taxation has also reduced the top 1 per cent’s share of disposable income. This paper finds that income inequality …
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Starting from a low level in early 2000s, Turkey’s total capital stock has since expanded rapidly, but the composition and quality of investment raises questions. This study focuses on business investment, as the main driver of physical and knowledge-based capital formation and, hence, of...
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India is becoming a key player in the global economy. It performs well in exporting information and technology services, pharmaceuticals and petroleum products. India’s large diaspora is well integrated abroad, helping to develop new export markets and facilitate the transfer of technology and...
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With sound framework conditions, fine universities, good infrastructure and policies friendly towards foreign direct investment, Ireland scores high in international innovation scoreboards. Overall, policies to boost innovation and entrepreneurship are on the right track, but investment in...
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In a financially interconnected world, individual countries’ policy choices affect other economies and can become a source of international shocks. Leveraging on a new quarterly dataset of capital control adjustments, we find renewed evidence that the introduction of capital controls in one...
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Business has often been arguing against the introduction of a carbon tax because it would induce a pollution haven … possible channels of the pollution haven effect - foreign direct investment (FDI). Using data for listed firms in 23 OECD … countries, we find that the effect of higher domestic energy prices on firms’ outward stock of FDI has been significant and …
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Getting tax and transfer systems to efficiently deliver sufficient revenues to achieve macroeconomic targets, address … reduction. This review particularly recommends shifting away from income taxation to indirect taxation, for instance by raising … more revenue from the Goods and Services Tax. The report also advises caution in some recent welfare-reform proposals, and …
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. First, it argues that Chile needs to increase income redistribution through its tax and transfer system towards levels …
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