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Greater international economic interconnectedness over recent decades has been changing inflation dynamics. This paper presents evidence that the expansion of global value chains (GVCs), ie cross-border trade in intermediate goods and services, is an important channel through which global...
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This paper examines the potential output gains from the implementation of optimal teacher incentive pay schemes, by calibrating the Hölmstrom and Milgrom (1987) hidden action model using data from Muralidharan and Sundararaman (2011), a teacher incentive pay experiment implemented in Andhra...
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From a theoretical perspective, the output gap is probably the most comprehensive and convincing concept to describe the cyclical position of an economy. Unfortunately, for practical purposes, the concept depends on the determination of potential output, which is an inherently unobservable...
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A manufacturer's incentives to undertake non-contractible investments depend on the profit margin on her sales to the retailer, and slotting allowances can facilitate such incentives by increasing unit wholesale prices. At first glance, it is tempting to conclude that slotting allowances should...
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-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit … investment incentives and transfer pricing induces inefficiently low taxes …
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We study the role of competition for the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment in resource-based industries. The … host country government is not only unable to commit not to expropriate investment ex post, but is also unable to commit to … higher investment levels and increases host country revenues, but hurts profits of international investors …
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We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …
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This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining...
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The optimal investment to mitigate climate change crucially depends on the discount rate used to evaluate the … investment's uncertain future benefits. The appropriate discount rate is a function of the horizon over which these benefits … accrue and the riskiness of the investment. In this paper, we estimate the term structure of discount rates for an important …
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-verifiable managerial effort enhances taxable profits. We show that investment changes following a rise in dividend taxes might not be … investment response, in contrast to insights from previous literature. We provide a testable implication to infer the mode of … investment finance from investment responses. Furthermore, we show that imposing income tax on managerial incentive pay is …
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