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International Technology Diffusion of Joint and Cross-border Patents

Chang, Chia-Lin; McAleer, Michael; Tang, Ju-Ting - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013

is necessary to increase expenditure on R&D for business enterprises and higher education, exports and technology. If the …

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The Limiting Distribution of Production in Integrated Economies: Evidence from US States and EU Countries

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

We show that in a fully integrated economy, in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each member’s share of total output will equal its shares of total stocks of productive factors (i.e., physical and human capital). We label this result the equal-share relationship. This...

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Investor Sentiment and Employment

Montone, Maurizio; Zwinkels, Remco C.J. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2015

that attract more foreign direct investments from the US and that are perceived as more popular among US investors. …

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Private Capital Flows to Low Income Countries: Country-Specific Effects and the Lucas Paradox

Franken, Corine; Wijnbergen, Sweder van - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper analyses Net Private Capital Flows to LICs incorporating the recent surge in FDI between 2000 and 2006. We show that including country-specific effects in a paneldata setup resolves the Lucas Paradox, at least for LICs. Our results suggest that openness is among the most important...

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Will Corporate Tax Consolidation improve Efficiency in the EU ?

Horst, Albert van der; Bettendorf, Leon; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2007

The European Commission favours the introduction of a consolidated corporate tax base to overcome the distortions arising from the existing system of separate accounting. The blueprints for consolidation are simulated with the applied general equilibrium model CORTAX. We show that the benefits...

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The Trade-Off between Foreign Direct Investments and Exports: The Role of Multiple Dimensions of Distance

Lankhuizen, Maureen; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Linders, … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

countries is large, while exports become more important if scale economies in production are large. This paper investigates … empirically the effect of different dimensions of distance on the choice between exports and FDI. We find that different … dimensions of distance affect exports and FDI differently. There is clear evidence of a proximity-concentration trade-off in …

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Horizontal Multinational Firms, Vertical Multinational Firms and Domestic Investment

Namini, Julian Emami; Pennings, Enrico - Tinbergen Instituut - 2009

We build a dynamic general equilibrium model with 2 countries, horizontal and vertical multinational activity and endogenous domestic and foreign investment. It is found that horizontal multinational activity always leads to a complementary relationship between domestic and foreign investment....

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Enhanced Cooperation in an Asymmetric Model of Tax Competition

Vrijburg, Hendrik; Mooij, Ruud A. de - Tinbergen Instituut - 2010

This paper analyzes enhanced cooperation agreements in corporate taxation in a three country tax competition model where countries differ in size. We characterize equilibrium tax rates and the optimal tax responses due to the formation of an enhanced cooperation agreement. Conditions for...

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Revealed Competition for Greenfield Investments between European Regions

Burger, Martijn J.; Knaap, Bert van der; Wall, Ronald S. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012

In the modern economy, cities are assumed to be in fierce competition over attracting foreign investments in leading … competing with each other over which types of investments Combining insights from international economics, international … investments based on the overlap of investment portfolios of regions. Taking competition for greenfield investments between …

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Zipf's Law for Integrated Economies

Bowen, Harry P.; Munandar, Haris; Viaene, Jean-Marie - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005

We first demonstrate that, within a fully integrated economy (FIE) in which there is free mobility of goods and factors, each FIE member's share of total FIE output will equal its shares of the total FIE stock of each productive factor. This equal-share property implies that, if economic...

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