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This paper reviews capital taxation issues in Italy based on a comprehensive definition encompassing taxes on income …, transactions, and ownership. It discusses options to enhance the neutrality of the capital income tax system, followed by a … replacing the set of existing taxes on financial and real assets with a single net wealth tax. …
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institution’s credit worthiness and the return on its market value, and importantly, on the level and quality of capital … steps taken to increase resilience, notably higher capitalization. Our results suggest increased capital buffers may …
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This Selected Issues paper attempts to analyze the end-point problem and improve the quality of potential GDP estimates for Germany. It projects that Germany’s potential GDP growth will slow over the coming decade, mainly because of declining labor input. The paper focuses on a long-term...
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This paper presents a model of a multinational firm's optimal debt policy that incorporates international taxation factors. The model yields the prediction that a multinational firm's indebtedness in a country depends on a weighted average of national tax rates and differences between national...
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This paper reviews trends in capital flows and capital-like flows such as official grants and remittances to low …
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The study documents evidence of a "quality effect" of financial liberalization on allocative efficiency, which is measured by the dispersion in Tobin's Q across firms. Based on a simple model, the authors predict that financial liberalization, by equalizing access to credit, reduces the...
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The paper investigates the growth effects of public capital in Portugal using annual data for the period 1965-95. Both … a production function and a vector autoregressive model are estimated. Public capital is shown to be a significant long …, a substantial growth payoff from public investment. Disaggregating public capital shows that investment related to …
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capital and labor based on administratively set minimum wages rather than an imputed return to book assets.  This paper … shift would also raise the tax burden of skilled labor-intensive industries more than it would that of capital …
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data on U.S. firms from 1990 to 2011, it was found that the share of physical capital in assets has a strong influence on …
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discusses the interaction of dynamic provisioning with other macroprudential instruments such as countercyclical capital. …
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