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Patterns of Current Account Adjustment - Insights from Past Experience
Algieri, Bernardina; Bracke, Thierry - 2021
The paper examines episodes of current account adjustment in individual economies. A central finding is that these episodes are very divergent and can be usefully classified, on the basis of cluster analysis, in three groups. A majority of cases is characterised by internal adjustment,...
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What Drives Financial Development? A Meta-Regression Analysis
Doucouliagos, Chris - 2020
This paper offers a meta-regression analysis of the literature on the drivers of financial development. Our results based on 1900 estimates suggest that institutional quality is positively correlated to both private sector credit and stock market capitalization (both as share of GDP). Domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830987
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Do Multinational Firms Use Tax Havens to the Detriment of Other Countries?
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2020
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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Switching from Worldwide to Territorial Taxation : Empirical Evidence of FDI Effects
Buettner, Thiess - 2019
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 … synthetic-control method. Our results confirm effects of the switch from worldwide to territorial taxation on FDI but point at …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012892126
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Investor-State Dispute Settlement and Multinational Firm Behavior
Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2020
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012823148
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FDI and the Relevance of Spatial Linkages : Do Third Country Effects Matter for Dutch FDI?
Garretsen, Harry - 2013
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 geography also enters our empirical analysis through the market size and a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753723
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Institutions and Offshoring Decision
Nicolini, Marcella - 2021
establish an FDI. Property rights theory suggests that contract enforcement matters differentially across sectors. This paper is … the first attempt to test whether institutions matter differentially across different sectors in FDI decision. Using data …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316890
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Multinational Production and Global Shock Propagation During the Great Recession
Li, Haishi - 2023
. The MP links significantly amplified the impact of these shocks on the rest of the world, which had a much greater impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014358332
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Fiscal Consolidation and the Current Account : OECD Evidence
Breuer, Christian - 2020
We apply a "new" conventional (CAPB-based) measure of fiscal policy, which is less prone to endogeneity issues, and find that a 1-percent of GDP fiscal consolidation leads to the improvement of the current account-to-GDP ratio by approximately 0.8 percent of GDP, while previous research based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012841935
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The Euro Exchange Rate and Germany's Trade Surplus
Hohberger, Stefan - 2019
We estimate a three-region (DE-REA-RoW) structural macroeconomic model, and we provide a counterfactual on how nominal exchange rate flexibility would have affected the German trade balance (TB) by simulating the shocks of the estimated model under a counterfactual flexible exchange rate regime....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012890627