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This paper investigates the effect of economic policy uncertainty (EPU) on gambling activity in China. Based on a …
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that anticipate the actual tax base incorrectly. I analyze the effects of stochastic taxation on investment behavior in a … the effects of both tax base and tax rate uncertainty, the investment's tax payment is modelled as a stochastic process …. Increased tax uncertainty has an ambiguous impact on investment timing. The view that tax uncertainty depresses real investment …
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between countries generates positive investment spillover, intra-firm production linkages predict negative spillover. Using … subsidiary-level data and exogenous corporate tax hikes, we find that local business units cut investment by 0.4% for a 1 …
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reduces owners' capital investment – we find that granting formal control rights to workers raises capital formation. The … relations whereby shared governance raises capital by permitting workers to bargain over investment or by institutionalizing …
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This paper provides new evidence on the stochastic behaviour of the EPU (Economic Policy Uncertainty (EPU) index constructed by Baker et al. (2016) in six of the biggest economies (Canada, France, Japan, US, Ireland, and Sweden) over the period from January 1985 to October 2019. In particular,...
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For a long time, China’s impressive growth performance has been driven by investment and high productivity gains. Based … on the recent discussion on possible overcapacities and overinvestment in China, the paper investigates the … sustainability of China’s investment- and export-driven growth model. It is shown that since the turn of the millennium buoyant …
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We find that macroeconomic uncertainty plays a significant role in U.S. monetary policy. First, we construct a measure of uncertainty as felt by policymakers at the time of making their rate-setting decisions. This measure is derived from a real-time, Bayesian estimation of a small monetary VAR...
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This paper develops a tractable model of a society hit by a viral pandemic. It is sufficiently rich so as to relate the optimal decisions of the policymaker to the underlying characteristics of this society, in terms of preferences, social mores and economic structures. This allows us to make...
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While the COVID-19 pandemic had a large and asymmetric impact on firms, many countries quickly enacted massive business rescue programs which are specifically targeted to smaller firms. Little is known about the effects of such policies on business entry and exit, factor reallocation, and...
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We conduct a survey experiment among 18,000 respondents in Germany to examine the determinants of support for rent control policies. Highlighting undesirable price and supply effects lowers respondents’ agreement with rent control, while pointing out that it can prevent displacement of...
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