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Land, Men, Taxation -- An Application to Pre-Modern China and Europe -- Erik Jones' 'European Miracle' Revisited

Blankart, Charles B. - 2014

. China's contiguous geography allows bureaucrats to establish an autocratic tax system whereas Europe's split geography …Eric Jones has found that excessive taxes were detrimental for pre-modern China's economic growth whereas moderate … taxes were conducive for Europe's economic growth. This paper provides a political-economic answer to the question why these …

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Subsidizing National Champions : An Evolutionary Perspective

Aubert, Cecile - 2008

A national-champions-related industrial policy has become (again) en vogue among European politicians. Against this background, our work orders different types of national champions along the industry lifecycle. Different types of locally bound externalities appear along the lifecycle. In a...

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Do Countries Compensate Firms for International Wage Differentials?

Mittermaier, Ferdi - 2010

compensate firms for international labor cost differentials. Using panel data for western Europe, we then put the model … in eastern Europe, we find strong support for the model prediction that countries with relatively high labor costs tend …

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Firm-Specific Characteristics and the Timing of Foreign Direct Investment Projects

Raff, Horst; Ryan, Michael John - 2021

This paper uses a proportional hazard model to study foreign direct investment by Japanese manufacturers in Europe …

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Is it Just Luring Reported Profit? The Case of European Patent Boxes

Köthenbürger, Marko - 2018

Patent box regimes have become increasingly popular as an instrument to attract taxable income from intellectual property (IP). This paper assesses the quantitative impact of patent box regimes on profit shifting by multinational enterprises (MNEs). We proxy the ability to access the tax benefit...

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Tax-Benefit Systems in Europe and the US : Between Equity and Efficiency

Bargain, Olivier - 2011

Whether observed differences in redistributive policies across countries are the result of differences in social preferences or efficiency constraints is an important question that paves the debate about the optimality of welfare regimes. To shed new light on this question, we estimate labor...

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Which Conflicts Can the European Neighbourhood Policy Help Resolve?

Gylfason, Thorvaldur - 2012

Under what conditions can the European Neighbourhood Policy achieve one of its main objectives: to resolve conflicts in the European Union's neighbourhood? In the spirit of Montesquieu and Monnet, the basic hypothesis of the EU is that closer economic integration encourages governments to take...

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Labor Market Policies and European Crises

Bertola, Giuseppe - 2013

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors,...

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Do Transfer Pricing Laws Limit International Income Shifting? Evidence from European Multinationals

Lohse, Theresa - 2013

In recent years several countries have augmented their national tax laws by transfer pricing legislations which intend to limit the leeway of multinational firms to exploit international corporate tax rate differences and relocate profit to low-tax affiliates by distorting intra-firm transfer...

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Crowding Out of Long-Term Care Insurance : Evidence from European Expectations Data

Costa-Font, Joan - 2014

Long-term care (LTC) is the largest insurable risk that old-age individuals face in most western societies. However, the demand for LTC insurance is still ostensibly small in comparison to the financial risk, which is reflected in the formation of expectations of insurance coverage. One...

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