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This paper studies the effects of globalization on the ability of governments to generate tax revenues for the … size and factor abundance. It then draws on existing empirical evidence to outline the effects of globalization on capital …
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Within the frame of the Nordic welfare model, pension system design has taken very different routes. While the overall aims in terms of distribution and replacement rates are similar, the division of labour between defined benefit and contribution as well as pay-as-you-go versus funded schemes...
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The emergence of the Asian tiger countries and the participation of the ex-communist countries in world trade has …
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employment ratio, namely, demographic changes, a growth dilemma and globalization. This paper discusses how these challenges …
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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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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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Societies see growing support for populist politicians who advocate an end to globalization. Our behavioral economics … model links impatience to voters' appraisals of an income shock due to globalization that is associated with short-run costs … and delayed gains. The model shows that impatient individuals may reject further globalization if they are subject to …
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We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006 … along the different dimensions of globalization. We also disentangle trade and financial globalization within the economic …
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In the context of international tax coordination incomplete information is one of the well-known frictions that can lead to bargaining failure and might explain a lack of observed coordination. We consider international negotiations about tax coordination under complete and incomplete...
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It is tricky to design local regulations on global externalities, especially so if firms are mobile. We show that when costs and outside options are firms’ private information, the threat of firm relocation leads to local regulations that are stricter, not looser. This result is general and...
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