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holds after adjustment for GDP and other socioeconomic variables -- is currently unknown. Using data on 131 countries, the …
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We construct the world's centers of gravity for human population, GDP and CO2 emissions by taking the best out of five … of gravity, we find a radical Western shift of GDP and CO2 emissions centers in the 19th century, in sharp contrast with … the stability of the demographic center of gravity. Both GDP and emissions trends are reversed in the first half of the 20 …
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This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...
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This chapter provides a survey of issues which emerge with the taxation of multinational enterprises. It addresses tax … investments of such firms directly. It survey positive as well as normative principles of such taxation and incentives, relates to …
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This paper analyses the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on stock market returns and their volatility in the case of the G20 countries. In contrast to the existing empirical literature, which typically focuses only on either Covid-19 deaths or lockdown policies, our analysis is based on a...
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This paper surveys some recent literature on fiscal policy and comparative politics. Economic policy is viewed as the outcome of a game with multiple-principals and multiple-agents. Opportunistic politicians bargain over policy. Rational voters hold them accountable through retrospective voting....
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We study the efficacy of releases from the U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) within the context of fully specified models of the global oil market that explicitly allow for storage demand as well as unanticipated changes in the SPR. Using novel identifying strategies and evaluation methods,...
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which led to a one-off redemption of T-bonds in amount of 8.5% of GDP. The analysis also reveals a cycle of structural …
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