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This paper formulates a structural empirical model of heterogeneous firms whose workers exhibit fair-wage preferences, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of the model in a data-set of five European...
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it driven by investment and capital accumulation. By 2014, gross capital formation had reached 46 percent of aggregate … expenditures. This paper documents the role of investment in driving economic growth in China, questions how much longer China can … sustain a relatively high investment rate, and examines the arguments that have been offered for an impending drastic …
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, 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 … effects on production investment of multinational affiliates. The findings indicate that a unilateral implementation of an ACE …
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China's increased trade with and investment in Africa have boosted the continent's economic growth but have also … generated considerable controversy. In this paper we investigate China's outward direct investment ODI in Africa using macro and … investment is small, though growing rapidly. China's attraction to resource-rich countries is no different from Western …
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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 develop a dynamic multi-country trade model with foreign direct investment (FDI) in the form of non-rival technology …
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returns than needed to secure investment, even when taking the uncertainties involved into account. The results obtained can …
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This paper studies public goods provision in an experiment in which contributors repeatedly interact with rent-extracting administrators. Our main result is that the presence of an administrator reduces contributions but only because rent extraction lowers the MPCR. Analysing the dynamic...
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through encouraging investment by firms fearing expropriation and bribes in corrupt countries. Second, by supporting … corruption and the concealment of officials' bribes, tax havens discourage the provision of public goods and hence have also a …
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contrary, under corruption, we show that bailouts are ineffective unless rent-seeking groups are eradicated …
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