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FDI Spillovers and Industrial Policy : The Role of Tariffs and Tax Holidays
Du, Luosha - 2011
magnitude and direction of FDI spillovers. We examine these spillover effects across the diverse ownership structure of China … reductions associated with China's WTO ascension, increased the productivity impacts of FDI's backward spillovers. Tax policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461890
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Trade, Foreign Investment, and Industrial Policy for Developing Countries
Harrison, Ann - 2009
In this paper we explore the popular but controversial idea that developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. Are developing countries justified in imposing tariffs, subsidies, and tax breaks that imply distortions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463389
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Eliminating the Pass-Through : Towards FDI Statistics that Better Capture the Financial and Economic Linkages between Countries
Borga, Maria - 2018
FDI plays a central role in managing global production networks, but FDI statistics also reflect other factors, including tax avoidance, that make it difficult to differentiate between FDI for "long-term" investments that serves as a source of growth and FDI that is purely financial and has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480682
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The International Linkage of Real Interest Rates : The European - U.S. Connection
Cumby, Robert E. - 1984
rates has been widespread in the analyses by economic policymakers both in Europe and in the United States. In this paper we … been raised by the recent policy debates in Europe and the United States: Have ex ante real rates in the United States and … Europe been high during recent years? Has there been a link between U.S. real rates and those in other countries? Can this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477666
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Patents as Options : Some Estimates of the Value of Holding European Patent Stocks
Pakes, Ariel - 1984
In many countries holders of patents must pay an annual renewal fee in order to keep their patents in force. This paper uses data on the proportion of patents renewed, and the renewal fees faced by, post World War II cohorts of patents in France, the United Kingdom, and Germany, in conjunction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477754
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The Heights of Europeans Since 1750 : A New Source For European Economic History
Floud, Roderick - 1984
Economic and social historians have traditionally been concerned to measure changes in the income and welfare of populations in the past.Until recently, however, they have not recognized that anthropometric data, such as evidence on the average height achieved by a population at a particular...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012477779
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Immigration and Preferences for Redistribution in Europe
Alesina, Alberto - 2019
immigrant stocks for 140 regions of 16 Western European countries. Exploiting within-country variations in the share of … immigrants in their residence region is higher. This negative association is driven by regions of countries with relatively large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479516
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The Industry Anatomy of the Transatlantic Productivity Growth Slowdown
Gordon, Robert J. - 2019
By merging KLEMS data sets and aggregating over the ten largest Western European nations (EU-10), we are able to compare and contrast productivity growth up through 2015 starting from 1950 in the U.S. and from 1972 in the EU-10. Data are provided at the aggregate level, as well as for 16...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479654
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Skill of the Immigrants and Vote of the Natives : Immigration and Nationalism in European Elections 2007-2016
Moriconi, Simone - 2018
would be associated with a shift in votes away from nationalist parties in almost all European regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012480728
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Zombie Credit and (Dis-)Inflation : Evidence from Europe
Acharya, Viral V. - 2020
partial equilibrium estimates suggest that without a rise in zombie credit post 2012, annual inflation in Europe during 2012 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012481741