We view the entrepreneur as an agent who possesses human capital in the form of specific skills or talents. When she … starts a firm, her human capital is essential to the firm and it has substantial private value. The entrepreneur transforms …

generous tax depreciation provisions. Several countries including the UK have reduced tax rates for SMEs. This study compares … incentive effects of such reforms on the SMEs’ investment decisions adopting simple present value model. Ceteris paribus tax …

show that distance matters for cross-border lending, especially for the SMEs. In contrast to the policy of harmonization …

According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital …. Fixed factor taxes have the potential to improve welfare by defusing the globalization trilemma through a reduction in the …

This study considers the effects of globalization, in its economic and social dimensions, on obesity and caloric intake … globalization and both obesity and caloric intake. A one standard deviation increase in globalization is associated with a 20 … with an instrument variable strategy, a lagged structure, and corrections for panel standard errors. The primary driver is …

We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, ‘disciplines’ governments and improves governance. We … demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country’s vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This … ‘golden straitjacket’. However, globalization may also ‘overdiscipline’ governments - resulting in a perverse impact on …