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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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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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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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Global economic prospects : broad-based upturn, but for how long?

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Kose, M. Ayhan; Ohnsorge, Franziska - World Bank Group - 2018

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Handbook of deep trade agreements

Mattoo, Aaditya (ed.); Rocha, Nadia (ed.); Ruta, Michele (ed.) - 2020

rules and other elements of international economic law influence how countries transact, invest, work, and, ultimately …

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Global Trade Watch 2017 : Trade Defies Policy Uncertainty-Will It Last?

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

contributions to global trade growth have come from East Asian countries in the developing world and the Euro area in the developed … world. Merchandise trade, which in recent years has been less resilient than services trade, picked up, growing by 4 …

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Global Trade Watch 2018 : Trade Amid Tensions

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2019

. Trade policy developments are mixed. Restrictive trade measures imposed during 2018 affected 3.8 percent of world …-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China alone affected 2.0 percent of world merchandise trade in 2018. Ongoing trade … a multilateral approach and World Trade Organization reforms …

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A Decade After the Global Recession : Lessons and Challenges for Emerging and Developing Economies

Kose, M. Ayhan - 2019

economy and, especially, emerging market and developing economies, have suffered a decade of weak growth despite unprecedented …

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The evolution of deep trade agreements

Mattoo, Aaditya; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2020

This paper presents new data on the content of preferential trade agreements. The data contain detailed information on the 18 policy areas most frequently covered in preferential trade agreements, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive commitments, and other aspects such as transparency,...

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Negative Interest Rate Policies : Sources and Implications

Arteta, Carlos - 2016

Against the background of continued growth disappointments, depressed inflation expectations, and declining real equilibrium interest rates, a number of central banks have implemented negative interest rate policies (NIRP) to provide additional monetary policy stimulus over the past few years....

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