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This paper investigates the tax responsiveness of multinational firms’ investment decisions in foreign countries, distinguishing firms that are able to avoid taxes (avoiders) from those that are not (non-avoiders). From a theoretical point of view, the tax responsiveness of firms crucially...
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, leading to a link between a firm's operating profits and wages of workers employed by this firm. We estimate the parameters of … aggregate employment. -- structural models ; heterogeneous firms ; fair wages ; labour market imperfections ; exporter wage …
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thereby fosters economic growth. We apply a structural estimation approach to fully track the endogenous mechanisms of the …
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This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using a rich panel data-set of 25,360 firms observed over the period 2004-2007. This industry is characterized by its important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper...
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One of the oldest and largest literatures in empirical economics is concerned with the estimation of demand and supply … the data. This chapter is concerned with a host of issues that arise with the estimation of such models, respecting their … panel econometric generic structure. The issues covered range from the estimation of double-indexed versus higher …
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for 96 countries in 2005. We expect the elasticity of trade to vary particularly with bilateral distance and bilateral … cost measures. The results indicate that the elasticity of trade with respect to tariffs in different countries varies …
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Bilateral investment treaties (BITs) have proliferated over the past 50 years such that the number of pairs of countries with BITs is roughly as large as the number of country-pairs that belong to bilateral or regional preferential trade agreements (PTAs). The purpose of this study is to provide...
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The European Union (EU) provides grants to disadvantaged regions of member states to allow them to catch up with the EU average. Under the Objective 1 scheme, NUTS2 regions with a GDP per capita level below 75% of the EU average qualify for structural funds transfers from the central EU budget....
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