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Income inequality and oligarchs in Russian regions : a note
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Gundacker, Lidwina - 2017
We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income … distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011646801
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Foreign direct investment and regional inequality : a panel data analysis
Lessmann, Christian - 2012 - This version: November 2012
. The aim of this paper is to investigate the impact of foreign direct investment on regional inequalities. First, the … development has on the negative impact from FDI on regional inequality. -- regional inequality ; foreign direct investment ; panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009687189
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FDI, trade costs and regional asymmetries
Darby, Julia; Ferrett, Ben; Wooton, Ian - 2013
We set up a trade model where three countries compete for an exogenous number of firms. Our innovation lies in the geography of the model. Of the three countries, one is the hub through which all trade takes place. First, we establish the natural geography of the region, which is given by the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010210113
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A spatial analysis of inward FDI and rural-urban wage inequality : evidence from China
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi - 2020
When investigating the relationship between inward FDI and rural-urban inequality, previous studies overlook the inter-regional interactions. Building on the literature that highlights the significant role of rural-urban migration in inequality, this article investigates spatial spillover effect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012211131
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Profit shifting and investment effects : the implications of zero-taxable profits
Köthenbürger, Marko; Mardan, Mohammed; Stimmelmayr, … - 2018
-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit … investment incentives and transfer pricing induces inefficiently low taxes. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794726
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How do corporate tax hikes affect investment allocation within multinationals?
De Vito, Antonio; Jacob, Martin; Schindler, Dirk; Xu, … - 2023
between countries generates positive investment spillover, intra-firm production linkages predict negative spillover. Using … subsidiary-level data and exogenous corporate tax hikes, we find that local business units cut investment by 0.4% for a 1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013540885
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Barriers to global capital allocation
Pellegrino, Bruno; Spolaore, Enrico; Wacziarg, Romain - 2021
We quantify the impact of barriers to international investment, using a novel multi-country dynamic general equilibrium … asset positions. We estimate this gravity equation using recently developed foreign investment data that have been restated … to account for offshore investment and financing vehicles. We show that a parsimonious implementation of the model with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012514947
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Property Rights, Finance, and Entrepreneurship
Johnson, Simon; McMillan, John; Woodruff, Christopher - 1999
Is investment constrained more by insecure property rights or by limited external finance? For five transition … startup ma nufacturing firms. Access to credit does not appear to explain differences in investment. At least in the early …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781707
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Competition for natural resources and the hold-up problem
Hefeker, Carsten; Kessing, Sebastian - 2016
We study the role of competition for the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment in resource-based industries. The … host country government is not only unable to commit not to expropriate investment ex post, but is also unable to commit to … higher investment levels and increases host country revenues, but hurts pro.ts of international investors. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011547727
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A simple explanation for the unfavorable tax treatment of investment costs
Panteghini, Paolo (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364834