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Tax incentives are a key component of governments’ investment policy mix as they directly impact companies’ tax burden …. In this paper, we illustrate the EU’s tax attractiveness as investment location over time in terms of effective average …
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We investigate how the lending activities of a multinational bank’s affiliates located abroad are affected by funding difficulties in view of the financial crisis. For this, we consider transaction-induced changes in long-term lending to the private sector of 40 countries by the affiliates of...
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concerns play a significant role in the marginal investor's investment behavior. Furthermore, our cross-sectional results …
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This paper examines the relationship between foreign and domestic investment activity of multinational enterprises. The … investment in fixed assets. The empirical approach, which rests upon extensive and intensive margin variation, is shown to … produce very robust results. These suggest a positive relationship between foreign and home investment in real capital. This …
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The effectiveness of a central bank’s monetary policymaking is determined by the merit of its policy actions and their perceived credibility. Since the 1990s central banks have placed more emphasis on clear communications and transparency as additional levers to help achieve their goals. In...
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Did the decline in inflation rates from 2012 to 2015 and the low levels of market-based inflation expectations lead to de-anchored inflation dynamics in the euro area? This paper is the first time-varying event study to investigate the reaction of inflation-linked swap (ILS) rates - a...
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We analyze the relation between market-based credit risk interconnectedness among banks during the crisis and the associated balance sheet linkages via funding and securities holdings. For identification, we use a proprietary dataset that has the funding positions of banks at the bank-to-bank...
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What share of asset price movements is driven by news? We build a large, time-stamped event database covering scheduled macro news as well as unscheduled events. We find that news account for about 50% of all bond and stock price movements in the United States and euro area since 2002,...
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In times of financial distress, central banks provide unlimited liquidity to avoid fire sales. In response, banks raise their demand for collateral assets, and the short-term scarcity of collateral securities leads to higher prices, the Fire Buy premium. To avoid collateral scarcity, central...
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transmission of bank distress to the real economy - in particular, to real investment and labor employment by nonfinancial firms … supply downsize their real investment and labor employment significantly. This effect is larger for firms that are unable to …
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