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This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are two-fold in the presence of fixed setup flows costs. For each pair of source-host countries, there is a set of factors determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all,...
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an increase in economic activity in industry-province pairs that were the focus of the subsidy program, and positive … equilibrium model, we then assess the program's impacts. Based on the calibrated model we find that, in the long run, the subsidy … the country. These modest longer-term effects are due to the ability of households to migrate in response to the subsidy …
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I use a quantitative economic geography model to explore subsidy competition among U.S. states. I ask what motivates …-cooperative and cooperative subsidy choices and assess how far away we are from these extremes. I find that states have strong … closer to cooperative than non-cooperative subsidies but the potential losses from an escalation of subsidy competition are …
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Many American communities seek to attract or retain businesses with tax abatements, tax credits, or tax increment financing of infrastructure projects (TIFs). The evidence for 1999 indicates that communities are most likely to offer one or more of these business development incentives if their...
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We analyze how China's emergence as a destination for foreign direct investment is affecting the ability of other countries to attract FDI. We do so using an approach that accounts for the endogeneity of China's FDI. The impact turns out to vary by region. China's rapid growth and attractions as...
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This essay highlights the effects of radical transformations in the liberal characteristics of the regimes on foreign direct investors. To focus on the common patterns in the effects on foreign direct investment, of liberal vs. illiberal regime change, the essay spotlights the tale of two...
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We discuss recent cases of Chinese buyout activity in the OECD (especially in the US and the EU) in resource and manufacturing sectors. While most of the buyout attempts have been unsuccessful, they can serve as a catalyst for a wider discussion on the implications for global arrangements over...
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education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …
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When regulated firms are offered compensation to prevent them from relocating, efficiency requires that payments be distributed across firms so as to equalize marginal relocation probabilities, weighted by the damage caused by relocation. We formalize this fundamental economic logic and apply it...
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