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Cross-Border Tax Evasion Under a Unilateral FATCA Regime
Dharmapala, Dhammika - 2016
Cross-border tax evasion has emerged in recent years as a central issue in tax enforcement. Traditionally, the legal regime governing cross-border tax enforcement was based on information exchange upon request. In 2010, the US Congress enacted the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA),...
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The 2008 Financial Crisis and Taxation Policy
Hemmelgarn, Thomas - 2013
The 2008 financial crisis is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929. It has been characterised by a housing bubble in a context of rapid credit expansion, high risk-taking and exacerbated financial leverage, leading to deleveraging and credit crunch when the bubble burst....
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Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes
Schwarz, Christian - 2011
We develop a theory of a firm in an incomplete contracts environment which decides on its complexity, organization, and global scale. Specifically, the firm decides i) how thinly it wants to slice its production process by choosing the mass of symmetric intermediate inputs that are...
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Manufacturers and Retailers in the Global Economy
Raff, Horst - 2011
We develop a general-equilibrium model to capture key features of the retailing and of the manufacturing industry in order to understand how these two industries interact and how labor is allocated between them. We show that the observed shift in employment from manufacturing to retailing, the...
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Financial Integration, Globalization, and Real Activity
De Nicolo, Gianni - 2013
distinct impact of financial integration and globalization on several dimensions of real activity. We find that: financial … financial integration predict better growth prospects; both advances in financial integration and globalization are associated … financial integration and globalization indeed foster countries' growth, and there appears to be no trade-off between these …
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What Drives the Global Land Rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2013
This paper studies the determinants of foreign land acquisition for large-scale agriculture. To do so, gravity models are estimated using data on bilateral investment relationships, together with newly constructed indicators of agro-ecological suitability in areas with low population density as...
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Distance, Globalization, and International Trade
Borchert, Ingo - 2017
For a long time globalization could be seen everywhere but in gravity estimates. We offer evidence how globalization …
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Global Engagement and Returns Volatility
Girma, Sourafel - 2016
This paper uses high-frequency data for publicly-listed Japanese manufacturing firms over the period 2000 to 2010 to show that a greater reliance on foreign market sales increases the conditional volatility of firms' stock returns. The two margins of global engagement we consider, namely,...
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A Simple Model of Globalization, Schooling and Skill Acquisition
Davidson, Carl - 2013
worse. Globalization impacts educational behavior and labor market outcomes differently as the extent of firms engaged in …
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The Impact of Globalization on the Composition of Government Expenditures : Evidence from Panel Data
Dreher, Axel - 2006
According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure … globalization (quot;compensation hypothesisquot;). Employing two different datasets and various measures of globalization, we … analyze whether globalization has indeed influenced the composition of government expenditures. For a sample of 108 countries …
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