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The Impact of Tax Incentives on the Economic Activity of Entrepreneurs
Harju, Jarkko; Kosonen, Tuomas - CESifo - 2013
results imply that entrepreneurs react to tax incentives along both real and avoidance margins, while the latter elasticity is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010877859
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A Simple Model of Service Offshoring with Time Zone Differences
Kikuchi, Toru; Long, Ngo Van - CESifo - 2010
conferred by time zone differences. We emphasize the role of the entrepreneurs, who decide how to produce business services (i … zone differences. We also show that in the presence of moving costs for entrepreneurs, technological improvements and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008572526
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Energy Consumption and Economic Growth Revisited in African Countries
Eggoh, Jude C.; Bangaké, Chrysost; Rault, Christophe - CESifo - 2011
The aim of this paper is to provide new empirical evidence on the relationship between energy consumption and economic growth for 21 African countries over the period from 1970 to 2006, using recently developed panel cointegration and causality tests. The countries are divided into two groups:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320785
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Fiscal Policy During Business Cycles in Developing Countries: The Case of Africa
Leibfritz, Willi; Rottmann, Horst - CESifo - 2013
procyclicality Africa’s resilience against external shocks improved. This also helped to better cope with the Great Recession of 2009. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010718528
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Mobilizing VAT Revenues in African Countries
Cnossen, Sijbren - CESifo - 2014
Several African countries have to increase their tax revenues to finance human and economic development. General consumption taxes, such as VATs, are the preferred instrument for doing so, because they are less detrimental to growth than income taxes. To enable their use, VAT design has to be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011093981
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Economic Growth in Africa: Comparing Recent Improvements with the "lost 1980s and early 1990s" and Estimating New Growth Trends
Leibfritz, Willi; Flaig, Gebhard - CESifo - 2013
In the first part of the paper we look at economic growth in Africa over the past three decades. We divide the past …. During the first period, Africa did not catch up but lost ground, Africa’s average per capita income declined. Since the mid … growth rates for Africa and several individual countries. We use the Hodrick-Prescott filter with different values for the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010641423
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Economic-Social Interaction in China
Lindbeck, Assar - CESifo - 2008
This paper analyzes economic-social interaction in China in connection with the country’s change of economic system. I define an economic system in terms of a multidimensional vector of broad institutional characteristics, and I emphasize that important features of the social development are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406215
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Beyond the Salassa-Samuelson Effect in some New Member States of the European Union
García-Solanes, José; Sancho-Portero, Francisco I.; … - CESifo - 2007
This paper analyses the Balassa and Samuelson hypothesis in two groups of European countries: six New Member States (NMS) and six advanced EU-15 economies. It is found that the second stage of the hypothesis, which relates relative sector prices with the real exchange rate, does not hold...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005416475
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Globalization: A Woman's Best Friend? Exporters and the Gender Wage Gap
Bøler, Esther Ann; Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska; … - CESifo - 2015
While the impact of globalization on income inequality has received a lot of attention, little is known about its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257669
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The Twin Effects of Globalization - Evidence from a Sample of Indian Manufacturing Firms
Daveri, Francesco; Manasse, Paolo; Serra, Danila - CESifo - 2010
with globalization may be twin to each other. We provide statistical evidence of this so far neglected trade-off for a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671733