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This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the … tax competition between countries and discusses the role of factor mobility and country-specific characteristics such as …, labor and consumption taxes. It touches on recent trends in income tax incentives for highly skilled workers, the challenges …
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If online transactions are tax-free, increased online shopping may lower tax rates as jurisdictions seek to reduce tax … avoidance; but, if online firms remit taxes, online sales may put upward pressure on tax rates because internet sales help … enforce destination-based taxes. I find that higher internet penetration generally results in lower municipal tax rates, but …
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show that taxation of rents may also increase utility of the current generation provided tax revenues are earmarked to … reduce wage taxes. In particular, a shift in the tax mix may yield an intergenerational Pareto-improvement when the initially … prevailing tax mix is sufficiently skewed towards wage taxation …
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In this paper, we study the role of Confucius Institute in supporting internationalization of Chinese enterprises. Employing a panel dataset containing 66 Belt-Road countries and 75 non Belt-Road countries from 2006 to 2017, we find that the Confucius Institute has had a positive effect on...
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We analyze how trade openness matters for interstate conflict over productive resources. Our analysis features a terms-of-trade channel that makes security policies trade-regime dependent. Specifically, trade between two adversaries reduces each one’s incentive to arm given the opponent’s...
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FX trade settlement data from CLS provides the most comprehensive view of the opaque market of OTC currency trades. We use the flows of investment funds and non-financial corporates and develop trading signals where the former reflects speculative strategies, while the latter trade for liquidity...
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We study the stability of trade policy arrangements under two regulatory scenarios, with/without PTAs. Unlike previous papers, we consider an extensive set of trade policy constellations and allow for unlimited farsightedness of negotiating parties. We find global free trade (GFT) to be uniquely...
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deleveraging and credit crunch when the bubble burst. This paper discusses the interactions between tax policy and the financial …. Finally, it examines some possible future tax options to prevent such crises. …
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a cross-country analysis, using tax and pension policy designs in Germany, the US and Australia. These developed nations … tax and transfer policies. To that end, we develop a stochastic, overlapping generations (OLG) model with tenure choice …. The model is calibrated to Germany featuring German statutory public pension and dual income tax systems, and then applied …
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of the disruption in production that started in China and then quickly spread across the world. We find that the COVID-19 … shock has a considerable impact on most economies in the world, especially when a share of the labor force is quarantined …
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