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Sinn, Hans-Werner; Ochel, Wolfgang - 2003

The forces of the market and systems competition bring about economic and social convergence in Europe. There is no need for social policies at the EU level. Social harmonisation would distort migration flows and slow down the speed of economic convergence. National welfare states will be...

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The location of cross-border mergers & acquisitions in the USA

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2015 - First version: October 2014, this version: April 2015

neglected. In this paper we analyze the within country location-target selection of M&As in the USA. Extending Guadalupe (2012 … the USA for the period 1985-2012, we compare location choices of cross-border M&As to that of national M&As. We find that … across the USA than national M&As, and that for both forms of M&As location specific market access in the USA as well as …

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Which Communities should be afraid of mobility? : the effects of agglomeration economies on the sensitivity of firm location to local taxes

Jofre-Monseny, Jordi (contributor); … - 2008

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Strategic environmental policy and the mobility of firms

Richter, Philipp M.; Runkel, Marco; Schmidt, Robert C. - 2019

The loss of international competitiveness of domestic industries remains a key obstacle to the implementation of effective carbon prices in a world without harmonized climate policies. We analyze countries' non-cooperative choices of emissions taxes under imperfect competition and mobile...

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The trade and welfare effects of mergers in space

Egger, Hartmut (contributor); Egger, Peter (contributor) - 2008

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The role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition

Haupt, Alexander; Krieger, Tim - 2009

In this paper, we analyse the role of mobility in tax and subsidy competition. Our primary result is that increasing "relocation" mobility of firms leads to increasing "net" tax revenues under fairly weak conditions. While enhanced relocation mobility intensifies tax competition, it weakens...

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Competition for firms in an oligopolistic industry : do firms or countries have to pay?

Haufler, Andreas (contributor); Wooton, Ian (contributor) - 2007

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Tax rate and tax base competition for foreign direct investment

Egger, Peter; Raff, Horst - 2011

This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments...

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Competing for foreign direct investments : a real options approach

Panteghini, Paolo; Schjelderup, Guttorm - 2003

This paper uses the Bad News Principle to study how the ability of multinationals to shift profits by transfer pricing affects both the timing of foreign direct investment decisions and government tax policy. A main finding of the paper is that if countries compete to attract foreign direct...

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Competition for FDI and profit shifting

Ma, Jie; Raimondos-Møller, Pascalis - 2015

When countries compete for the location of a new multinational plant they need to be aware of the profit shifting opportunities this new plant creates for the global multinational firm. By modelling explicitly the multinational's intra-firm transactions, we show that the home market advantage...

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