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International taxation and multinational firm location decisions

Barrios Cobos, Salvador; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2008

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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Does WTO membership make a difference at the extensive margin of world trade?

Felbermayr, Gabriel (contributor); … - 2007

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Natural disasters and the effect of trade on income : a new panel IV approach

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin - 2011

Does trade openness cause higher GDP per capita? Since the seminal instrumental variables (IV) estimates of Frankel and Romer [F&R](1999) important doubts have surfaced. Is the correlation spurious and driven by omitted geographical and institutional variables? In this paper, we generalize F&R's...

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The real exchange rate in the long run : Balassa-Samuelson effects reconsidered

Bordo, Michael D.; Choudhri, Ehsan U.; Fazio, Giorgio; … - 2014

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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Naturally negative : the growth effects of natural disasters

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Gröschl, Jasmin Katrin - 2013

Growth theory predicts that natural disasters should, on impact, lower GDP per capita. However, the empirical literature does not offer conclusive evidence. Most existing studies use disaster data drawn from damage records of insurance companies. We argue that this may lead to estimation bias as...

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Thin capitalization rules and multinational firm capital structure

Blouin, Jennifer L.; Huizinga, Harry; Laeven, Luc; … - 2014

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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Transatlantic free trade : the view point of Germany

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Aichele, Rahel - 2014

America would be the largest preferential trade agreement in the world. Encompassing almost half of world GDP, it will have …

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Macroeconomic potentials of transatlantic free trade : a high resolution perspective for Europe and the world

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Heid, Benedikt; Larch, Mario; … - 2014

since the Uruguay Round (1986 to 1994). It would create a free trade zone covering 45% of world GDP. However, critics … gains for Germany (+3.5%), Europe (3.9%), and the world (+1.6%), but that it could also harm third countries. …

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Kyoto and carbon leakage : an empirical analysis of the carbon content of bilateral trade

Aichele, Rahel; Felbermayr, Gabriel - 2011

Has the Kyoto Protocol induced carbon leakage? We conduct the first empirical ex-post evaluation of the Protocol. We derive a theoretical gravity equation for the CO2 content of trade, which accounts for intermediate inputs, both domestic and imported. The structure of our new panel database of...

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Exploring the intensive and extensive margins of world trade : presented at Venice Summer Institute, Workshop on Dissecting Globalization, July 2004

Felbermayr, Gabriel; Kohler, Wilhelm - 2004

World trade evolves at two margins. Where a bilateral trading relationship already exists it may increase through time … have not traded with each other in the past (extensive margin). We provide an empirical dissection of post-World-War- II … growth in manufacturing world trade along these two margins. We propose a "cornersolutions- version"of the gravity model to …

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