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Regulatory Competition in Capital Standards with Selection Effects Among Banks

Haufler, Andreas - 2016

Several countries have recently introduced national capital standards exceeding the internationally coordinated Basel III rules, thus suggesting a ‘race to the top' in capital standards. We study regulatory competition when banks are heterogeneous and give loans to firms that produce output in...

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Does Income Inequality Lead to Terrorism?

Krieger, Tim - 2016

), that higher levels of income inequality are associated with more terrorism. Consistent with relative deprivation theory, we …

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Comment on Feige's Paper 'Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies : What Do We Really Know about the 'Shadow Economy'?'

Schneider, Friedrich - 2016

This comment provides a reply to Prof. Feige's paper with the title “Reflections on the Meaning and Measurement of Unobserved Economies: What do we really know about the ‘Shadow Economy'?”, in which Prof. Feige heavily criticizes me. I show that the same critique which Prof. Feige raises...

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External Debt and International Trade : Another Mismatch

Fujii, Eiji - 2016

Currency mismatch makes a debtor country suffer from domestic depreciation by magnifying the burden of its external debt. Because external debt can be repaid by exporting more than importing, a crucial channel for inducing recovery is net exports. However, the argument that domestic depreciation...

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The Economics of Investor Protection : ISDS versus National Treatment

Kohler, Wilhelm - 2019

provisions in a two-period model where foreign investment is subject to domestic regulation and a holdup problem. It shows that …

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Offshoring and Volatility of Demand

Benz, Sebastian - 2016

In this paper we explore the role that demand uncertainty plays for the offshoring decision, and the role that offshoring plays for domestic volatility of employment. Offshoring is modeled as in Antràs & Helpman (2004), but we assume complete contracts. Firms are heterogeneous as in Melitz...

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The Role of the Log Transformation in Forecasting Economic Variables

Lütkepohl, Helmut - 2009

For forecasting and economic analysis many variables are used in logarithms (logs). In time series analysis this transformation is often considered to stabilize the variance of a series. We investigate under which conditions taking logs is beneficial for forecasting. Forecasts based on the...

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Labour Taxation and Foreign Direct Investment

Egger, Peter - 2008

them to shed light on their role for bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI) stocks among the economies considered. Not …

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Measurement Error in Education and Growth Regressions

Portela, Miguel - 2008

The perpetual inventory method used for the construction of education data per country leads to systematic measurement error. This paper analyses the effect of this measurement error on GDP regressions. There is a systematic difference in the education level between census data and observations...

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In Praise of Tax Havens : International Tax Planning and Foreign Direct Investment

Hong, Qing - 2007

The multinationalization of corporate investment in recent years has given rise to a number of international tax … capital and so facilitate investment. Both the welfare effects of and the optimal response to international tax planning are … rise in optimal corporate tax rates, and a decline in multinational investment. Thus fears of a quot;race to the bottomquot …

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