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Foreign Direct Investment in a World of Multiple Taxes

Desai, Mihir A. - 2001

While governments have multiple tax instruments available to them, studies of the effect of tax policy on the locational decisions of multinationals typically focus exclusively on host country corporate income tax rates and their interaction with home country tax rules. This paper examines the...

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Attracting FDI in a Politically Risky World

Janeba, Eckhard - 2001

Conventional wisdom holds that lack of government commitment deters foreign investment in developing countries. Yet this explanation is not convincing because some econometric studies have found little support for the role of political risk and host governments can offer upfront subsidies that...

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"Tax Sparing" and Direct Investment in Developing Countries

Hines, James R, Jr - 1998

This paper analyzes the effect of and performance of foreign direct investment (FDI). sparing foreign investment income to permit investors to receive the full benefits of host country tax reductions. For example, Japanese firms investing in countries with whom Japan has agreements are entitled...

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The Evolution of Corporate Ownership After IPO : The Impact of Investor Protection

Foley, C. Fritz - 2008

Recent research documents that ownership concentration is higher in countries with weak investor protection. However, drawing on panel data on corporate ownership in 34 countries between 1995 and 2006, we show this pattern does not hold for newly public firms, which tend to have concentrated...

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Privatizing social security

Feldstein, Martin S. (contributor); Feldstein, Martin S. (ed.) - 1998

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The Value of Peripatetic Economists : A Sesqui-Difference Evaluation of Bob Gregory

Hamermesh, Daniel S. - 2005

I ask generally whether a country can benefit from the temporary importation of human capital, and specifically whether a program that attracts large groups of academic visitors to a distant country benefits it by generating additional scholarly research on local issues. Using the list of...

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Happiness and the Human Development Index : The Paradox of Australia

Blanchflower, David G. - 2005

According to the well-being measure known as the U.N. Human Development Index, Australia now ranks 3rd in the world and … happiness, considers implications for policymakers, and explores where Australia lies in international subjective well …, where a common language should help subjective measures to be reliable, Australia performs poorly on a range of happiness …

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The Architecture of the System of National Accounts : A Three Country Comparison, Canada, Australia, and United Kingdom

Wilson, Karen - 2005

Supply and Use framework. In Australia and United Kingdom, the supply and use framework is used to balance and benchmark the …; Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom …

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China's New Regional Trade Agreements

Antkiewicz, Agata - 2004

WTO in 2002. Agreements are in place with Hong Kong, Macao, ASEAN, Australia, and New Zealand, and are either in …

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Fear of Sudden Stops : Lessons from Australia and Chile

Caballero, Ricardo - 2004

vulnerability, drawing lessons from a detailed comparison of the response of Chile and Australia to recent external shocks and from … Australia's historical experience. We argue that in order to understand sudden stops and the mechanisms to smooth them, it is …

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