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We estimate the effects of a mandate allocating a third of corporate board seats to workers (shared governance). We study a reform in Germany that abruptly abolished this mandate for certain firms incorporated after August 1994 but locked it in for the older cohorts. In sharp contrast to the...
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Investment statistics of the People's Republic of China are a source of many puzzles. Some investment data are of dubious quality, while the particular concepts of investment and their changing definitions over time are often poorly understood. Fixed asset investment, a remnant of the planned...
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In this paper, we use an exogenous variation in tax regulations to analyze the impact of bonus depreciation programs on … business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … the theoretical literature, there is empirical evidence for strong and significant effects of the bonus depreciation …
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Government allows accelerated tax depreciation it should be aware of future losses due to default. So far, these estimates have …
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were driven by fears of a cyclical downturn and by the sterling depreciation following the referendum. We also find …
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This study provides a survey on corporate taxes around the world. Our analysis has three main objectives. First, we collect tax data and calculate (forward-looking) effective tax measures for a large sample of countries and recent years. We particularly describe how these measures vary over time...
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This study compares incentive effects of various tax depreciation methods which are currently employed in selected OECD … countries. Their generosity is determined on the basis of Samuelson s true economic depreciation. For this purpose, the present …. Therefore, in periods with inflation generous tax depreciation provisions do not adequately promote private investment as …
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primarily to inappropriately assigned asset weights to statutory depreciation allowances. Our empirical analysis exploits the …
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Human capital can depreciate if skills are unused. But estimating human capital depreciation is challenging, as worker … estimate a skill depreciation rate of 4.3% and experience returns of 6.8%. …
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This study compares incentive effects of various tax depreciation methods currently adopted in European transition … economies. In these countries straight-line, geometric-degressive and accelerated depreciation measures are quite popular in … depreciation. For this purpose, the present value model is applied under the particular consideration of different financial …
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