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Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, spoke about how corruption poses an enormous obstacle to economic and … social development, and the global goal of ending extreme poverty by 2030. He defined corruption as stealing from the poor …. The Bank that has zero tolerance for corruption, has opened itself to scrutiny, and is influencing governments and the …
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Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the location of new foreign subsidiaries. In fact, the impact of...
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Historical data for over hundred years and 14 countries is used to estimate the long-run effect of productivity on the real exchange rate. We find large variations in the productivity effect across four distinct monetary regimes in the sample period. Although the traditional Balassa-Samuelson...
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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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