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the most cost-efficient way to impose trade sanctions against Russia? We build a quantitative model of international trade … minimize Russia’s income, with different weights placed on these objectives. We find, first, that for countries with low … willingness to pay for sanctions against Russia, the most cost-efficient sanction is a uniform tariff on all Russian products of …
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period of coverage from 1950-2019 to 1950-2022, which includes two special periods – COVID-19 and the war between Russia and … Ukraine. The new update of the GSDB contains a total of 1,325 cases. In response to multiple inquiries and requests, the GSDB … trade. We also obtain estimates of the effects on trade of the 2014 sanctions on Russia …
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The use of tax havens by multinational corporations (MNCs) has attracted increasing attention and scrutiny in recent years. This paper provides an exposition of the academic literature on this topic. It begins with an overview of the basic facts regarding MNCs' use of havens, which are...
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This paper explores empirically whether and how FDI is affected if multinationals’ home countries change taxation of foreign earnings by switching from worldwide to territorial taxation. Our analysis employs data for German inbound FDI based on the ultimate investing country concept. We use a...
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This paper shows that Investor-State Dispute Settlements (ISDS) makes multinational firms more aggressive by increasing cost-reducing investments with the aim to enlarge the potential compensation an ISDS provision may offer. While a larger investment reduces the market distortion, it will also...
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The aim of this paper is to test for the relevance of spatial linkages for Dutch (outbound) FDI. To do so, and based on recent FDI theories, we estimate a spatial lag model to assess the importance of spatial linkages for Dutch FDI to 18 host countries. As a determinant of FDI, space or...
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Several papers have proven that the institutional environment of the receiving country can influence the choice to establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is the first attempt to test whether institutions...
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. The MP links significantly amplified the impact of these shocks on the rest of the world, which had a much greater impact …
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The Russian invasion of Ukraine has caused disruptions in international trade and highlighted the dependency of small … globalization and import dependency as a short-term reaction to economic turbulences and geopolitical upheaval at the onset of war …
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This paper uses a survey among students at European universities to explore whether Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has … affected attitudes toward European integration. Some respondents completed the survey just before Russia’s assault on February …. In effect, the war so close to the EU Eastern border provoked a rally around the supranational EU flag, with convergence …
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