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Stabilization and Savings Funds to Manage Natural Resource Revenues: Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan vs. Norway

Lücke, Matthias - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

Do the sovereign wealth funds of Kazakhstan and Azerbaijan promote the sustainable use of government oil revenues? We review the operational rules and performance of the two funds and compare them to Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global. The key challenges are to stabilize government...

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Taxes and the Financial Structure of German Inward FDI

Ramb, Fred; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2005

intra-company loans. Taxation, however, does not fully explain the high levels of intra-company borrowing. Roughly 60% of …

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Perfecting Imperfect Competition

Seißer, Goetz - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2008

This paper addresses the reduction of market failure under imperfect competition. It proposes a taxscheme that provides firms with an incentive to forgo their market power: Firms optimize after-tax profits. Now simply consider a firm´s gross profit margin the unique tax-rate it is charged on...

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Metalliferous Sediments in the Atlantis II Deep – Assessing the Geological and Economic Resource Potential and Legal Constraints

Bertram, Christine; Krätschell, Anna; O'Brien, Killian; … - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2011

To date, mineral resources are only mined on land but projected increases in demand have brought the exploration and exploitation of marine mineral resources back into focus. The Atlantis II Deep, located in the central Red Sea between Saudi Arabia and Sudan, is one of the largest marine sulfide...

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Tax competition and determination of the quality of public goods

Abdessalam, A. H. Ould; Kamwa, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

In this paper, the authors analyze the behavior of local governments on capital taxation when the financial choices in …

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A case where Barro expectations are not rational

Schlicht, Ekkehart - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2012

mode of taxation affects the present value of disposable income in the private sector. This violates their Barro …

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Fiscal Taylor Rules in the Postwar United States

Reicher, Christopher - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2009

Recent research and events have brought fiscal policy back into the spotlight. Fiscal Taylor rules and error correction models have represented two different ways of quantifying the feedbacks from fiscal and economic conditions to fiscal policy decisions. This paper synthesizes these two ideas,...

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The New Economy ; What Is Really New?

Siebert, Horst - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

capital markets and especially for labor. Major issues are regulation and taxation. …

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Unemployment and Labour Market Rigidities in OECD Countries ; The Impact of Taxes

Heitger, Bernhard - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2000

the taxation-unemployment relationship and whether this relationship is exogenous or simultaneously determined. Hausman … specification tests indicate that the impact of taxation on short-term unemployment is positive and exogenous whereas the … relationship between taxation and long-term unemployment is simultaneously determined. Correcting for this simultaneity results in …

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Fiscal Calculus in a New Keynesian Model with Matching Frictions

Campolmi, Alessia; Faia, Ester; Winkler, Roland - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2010

of hiring) and of government funding (lump sum taxation versus distortionary taxation). We find that in presence of … demand stimuli fiscal multipliers are zero and even turn negative when financed with distortionary taxation. On the other …

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