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Schwerhoff, Gregor - 2014

According to the Globalization Paradox, globalization limits the freedom of choice for national governments. Capital mobility in particular induces tax competition, thus putting downward pressure on capital taxes. However, while capital mobility introduces the inefficiency of tax competition, it...

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Stable and Sustainable Global Tax Coordination with Leviathan Governments

Eichner, Thomas - 2014

Itaya et al. (2014) study the conditions for sustainability and stability of capital tax coordination in a repeated game model with tax-revenue maximizing governments. One of their major results is that the grand tax coalition is never stable and sustainable. The purpose of this note is to prove...

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Sustainable Climate Treaties

Gersbach, Hans - 2017

We examine long-run treaties for mitigating climate change. Countries pay an initial fee into a global fund that is invested in long-run assets. In each period, part of the fund is distributed among the participating countries in relation to the emission reductions they have achieved in this...

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The Sustainability of Empire in Global Perspective : The Role of International Trade Patterns

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012

European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...

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The Environmental Kuznets Curve and Sustainability : A Panel Data Analysis

Farhani, Sahbi - 2014

In recent years, sustainability has represented one of the most important policy goals explored in the environmental Kuznets curve (EKC) literature. But related hypotheses, performance measures and results continue to present a challenge. The present paper contributes to this ongoing literature...

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Taxing Intellectual Property in the Global Economy : A Plea for Regulated and Internationally Coordinated Profit Splitting

Richter, Wolfram F. - 2017

Inter-country equity in the taxation of IP is a contentious issue. With its BEPS initiative, the OECD aims at taxing in accordance with value creation even though there are admitted difficulties in determining the actual place of value creation. The European Commission promotes the introduction...

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Internationally Coordinated Emission Permit Policies : An Option for Withdrawers from the Kyoto Protocol?

Bednar-Friedl, Birgit - 2014

policy if the world economy is dynamically efficient. From the perspective of a net foreign debtor country that has withdrawn … international policy coordination unless the world economy becomes dynamically inefficient …

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Reflections on the International Coordination of Carbon Pricing

Parry, Ian - 2021

The efficiency effects of carbon pricing depend on how it impacts distortions in fossil fuel markets, most notably from local air pollution externalities. By offsetting these distortions, carbon pricing may generate significant net economic benefits, so it is in countries own interests to...

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Contesting an International Trade Agreement

Cole, Matthew T. - 2018

We develop a new theoretical framework of trade agreement (TA) formation, called a ‘parallel contest', that emphasizes the political fight over TA ratification within countries. TA ratification is inherently uncertain in each country, where anti- and pro-trade interest groups contest each...

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WTO Membership and the Shift to Consumption Taxes

Buettner, Thiess - 2016

implications of membership in the World Trade Organization (WTO). Employing robust difference-in-difference specifications as well … as semi-parametric methods, we find that countries joining the WTO experience a decline in revenues from import duties … taxes. Although triggered by WTO accession, the shift towards consumption taxes, in particular to VAT, typically takes place …

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