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Tintelnot, Felix - 2016

Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production...

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Individually rational union membership

Bulkley, George; Myles, Gareth D. - 1996

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Chains of Ownership, Regional Tax Competition, and Foreign Direct Investment

Desai, Mihir A. - 2002

This paper considers the effect of taxation on the location of foreign direct investment (FDI) and taxable income reported by multinational firms with particular attention to the regional dynamics of tax competition and the role of chains of ownership. Confidential affiliate-level data are used...

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Flight-to-Quality or Flight-to-Liquidity? Evidence From the Euro-Area Bond Market

Beber, Alessandro - 2006

Do bond investors demand credit quality or liquidity? The answer is both, but at different times and for different reasons. Using data on the Euro-area government bond market, which features a unique negative correlation between credit quality and liquidity across countries, we show that the...

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Debt Overhang, Rollover Risk, and Corporate Investment : Evidence from the European Crisis

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2018

We quantify the role of financial factors that have contributed to sluggish investment in Europe in the aftermath of the 2008-2009 crisis. Using a big data approach, we match the firms to their banks based on banking relationships in 8 European countries over time, obtaining over 2 million...

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Protective or Counter-Productive? European Labor Market Institutions and the Effect of Immigrants on EU Natives

Angrist, Joshua - 2001

We estimate the effect of immigrant flows on native employment in Western Europe, and then ask whether the employment consequences of immigration vary with institutions that affect labor market flexibility. Reduced flexibility may protect natives from immigrant competition in the near term, but...

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Worker Needs and Voice in the US and the UK

Bryson, Alex - 2006

Workers have responded differently to declining union density in the US and UK. US workers have unfilled demand for unions whereas many UK workers free-ride at unionized workplaces. To explain this difference, we create a scalar measure of worker needs for representation and relate desire for...

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Changes over time in union relative wage effects in the UK and the US revisited

Blanchflower, David - 2002

This paper examines the impact of trade unions in the US and the UK and elsewhere. In both the US and the UK, despite declining membership numbers, unions are able to raise wages substantially over the equivalent non-union wage. Unions in other countries, such as Australia, Austria, Brazil,...

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How EU Markets Became More Competitive Than US Markets : A Study of Institutional Drift

Gutiérrez, Germán - 2018

political and lobbying expenditures have increased much more in America than in Europe, and using data across industries and …

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A Fistful of Dollars : Lobbying and the Financial Crisis

Igan, Deniz - 2011

Has lobbying by financial institutions contributed to the financial crisis? This paper uses detailed information on … financial institutions' lobbying and mortgage lending activities to answer this question. We find that lobbying was associated … with more risk-taking during 2000-07 and with worse outcomes in 2008. In particular, lenders lobbying more intensively on …

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