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Revisiting the Relationship between Trade Liberalization and Taxation
Arezki, Rabah; Dama, Alou Adesse; Rota-Graziosi, Gregoire - 2021
This paper explores the dynamic effects of trade liberalization on tax revenue using a worldwide panel dataset. Results … point to statistically significant negative effect of liberalization on (non- resource) tax revenues in the short term and … no significant effect in the medium term. Liberalization also alter the tax structure tilting revenues toward indirect …
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Political Connections, State Ownership and Productivity in China
Harris, Richard; Hashimzade, Nigar; Ding, Sai - 2016
linked to a period of liberalization. We then investigate the relationship between political connections, state ownership …
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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
Hjort, Jonas - 2013
A body of literature suggests that ethnic heterogeneity limits economic growth. This paper provides microeconometric evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker supplies and distributes flowers to two downstream...
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Firm Response to Competitive Shocks: Evidence from China's Minimum Wage Policy
Hau, Harald; Huang, Yi; Wang, Gewei - 2017
The large regional variation in minimum wage levels in the period 2002-08 in China implies that Chinese manufacturing firms experienced competitive shocks as a function of firm location and their low-wage employment share. We find that minimum wage hikes accelerate the input substitution from...
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Let's Switch to the Cloud: Cloud Adoption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022
The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...
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Let's Switch to the Cloud : Cloud Adoption and Its Effect on IT Investment and Productivity
Duso, Tomaso; Schiersch, Alexander - 2022
The advent of cloud computing promises to improve the way firms utilize IT solutions. Firms are expected to replace large and inflexible fixed-cost investments in IT with more targeted variable spending in cloud solutions. In addition, cloud usage is expected to increase the productivity of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076705
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Complementary Inputs and Industrial Development: Can Lower Electricity Prices Improve Energy Efficiency?
Singer, Gregor - 2024
The transition from traditional labor intensive to modern capital intensive production is a key factor for industrial development. Using half a million observations from Indian manufacturing plants, I analyze the effects of a secular decrease in industrial electricity prices through the lens of...
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FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms: Adjustments to New Export Opportunities
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina; Wong, Woan Foong - 2022
We investigate the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market on multinational affiliates and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry...
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FDI Inflows and Domestic Firms : Adjustments to New Export Opportunities
McCaig, Brian; Pavcnik, Nina; Wong, Woan Foong - 2023
We investigate the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market on multinational affiliates and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014264160
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Trade Liberalization Along the Firm Size Distribution : The Case of the EU-South Korea FTA
Chowdhry, Sonali; Felbermayr, Gabriel J. - 2021
How do firms of different sizes react to trade liberalization? Leading theories suggest that, amongst continuing …. However, studying the entry into force of the ambitious EU-South Korea Free Trade Agreement (EUKFTA) with French customs data … literature with the FTA selecting intermediate-sized firms into exporting to South Korea …
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