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Current literature shows a significant negative impact of terrorism on countries economies. We explore this relationship in more detail. Using an unbalanced panel of over 160 countries for up to 25 years and the Global Terrorism Database (GTD) we show a decrease in FDI as a consequence of...
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policy response to increasing firm mobility may be taxation, subsidization or non-distortion of investment depending on …
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In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing … 'relocation' mobility of firms leads to increasing 'net' tax revenues under fairly weak conditions. While enhanced relocation … mobility intensifies tax competition, it weakens subsidy competition. The resulting fall in the governments' subsidy payments …
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There is ample evidence that internal capital markets incur efficiency costs for multinational enterprises (MNEs). This … paper analyzes whether tax avoidance behavior interacts with the costs of running an internal capital market and how … implications of the MNE's decision to set up an internal capital market and the effect of external finance on the behavior of …
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The debate on trade and growth increasingly focuses on the composition of exports. Exports of more “sophisticated” products appear to be positively correlated with growth, and upgrading the quality of exports is high on the policy agenda of many countries. This study presents evidence...
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investigate the impact of differences in the strength of financial institutions and wealth inequality on trade flows, capital … movements and entrepreneurial migration. Distinct cost-cutting and career-changing motives for entrepreneurial migration exist … greater wealth inequality will export the output of the financially dependent sector, will import capital and will be a (net …
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trivial. We set up a dynamic macroeconomic model of a small open economy where both capital and labor are mobile and there are …
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Mobility of highly-skilled workers affects and is affected by labor market conditions, taxes, and other policies. This … paper documents the demographic and fiscal importance of international migration, especially in aging societies, reviews the … efficiency and distributional effects of mobility, and analyzes the economic incidence of fiscal transfers to low-skilled workers …
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their best and brightest vary substantially. The migration of skilled workers across countries tilts the deck even further …. Using newly available data, we first review the landscape of global talent mobility, which is both asymmetric and rising in … implications. Third, we review the national gatekeepers for skilled migration and broad differences in approaches used to select …
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This paper studies the decision made by a family to invest in student migration. We propose an empirical structural … this procedure. We study the characteristics of potential candidates to migration that increase or decrease their … complete a Master's degree doubles the odds of migration, there is little evidence of gender preference, students migrants are …
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