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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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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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This paper identifies the mechanism through which financial crises exert long-term negative effects on output. Theory ….2% higher today if productivity-enhancing investment intensity had remained at its pre-crisis level …
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The paper analyses adverse investment, growth and distributional effects of ultra-loose monetary policies based on the … substitute real investment by financial investment. When interest rates are expected to fall in the long term, the marginal and …
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Theory recommends aligning the tax treatment of debt and equity. A few countries, notably Belgium, have introduced an …, passive investment, and active investment of multinational firms, using high-quality administrative data on virtually all … multinational affiliates. Additionally, an ACE increases intra-group lending and other forms of passive investment but has no …
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utility function whose arguments are consumption and investment. They desire to accumulate wealth for its own sake – this is …
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We study a model where two parties, one from the left and one from the right, compete for position. The election is to be held in the near future and the outcome is uncertain. Prior to the election, the members of both parties nominate their prime ministerial candidates. Investors care about the...
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This paper considers cost-reducing R&D investment with spillovers in a Cournot oligopoly with overlapping ownership. We …
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explaining the consumption path after a Marginal Efficiency of Investment shock. We use an otherwise standard medium-scale New …
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