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The impact of opportunity zones on commercial investment and economic activity
Corinth, Kevin; Feldman, Naomi - 2022
A provision of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 offered tax incentives for investing in certain low-income areas in the United States called Opportunity Zones (OZs). The goal of this provision was to spur private investment in OZs in order to improve the economic well-being of their residents....
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The determinants of foreign direct investment flows to the federal region of Kurdistan
Heshmati, Almas (contributor); Davis, Rhona (contributor) - 2007
The flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) has increased dramatically in the last two decades. However, the distribution of FDI is highly unequal and the competition among countries to attract foreign investors is fierce. This report investigates the determinants of FDI inflows to developing...
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Trade, FDI, migration, and the place premium : Mexico and the United States
Gandolfi, Davide; Halliday, Timothy; Robertson, Raymond - 2015
United States and Mexico over the last 25 years. This paper evaluates the degree of wage convergence between these countries … during the period 1988 and 2011. We match survey and census data from Mexico and the United States to estimate the change in … evidence we do find is most likely due to factors unrelated to US-Mexico integration. While migration, trade, and FDI may …
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Quantifying optimal growth policy
Grossmann, Volker; Steger, Thomas M.; Trimborn, Timo - 2010
The optimal mix of growth policies is derived within a comprehensive endogenous growth model. The analysis captures important elements of the tax-transfer system and takes into account transitional dynamics. Currently, for calculating corporate taxable income US firms are allowed to deduct...
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Allocating subsidies for private investments to maximize jobs impacts
Robalino Aguirre, David A.; Romero, Jose Manuel; Walker, Ian - 2020
Governments often aim to influence the amount and sectoral allocation of private investments through explicit or implicit subsidies. The rules used to select projects to benefit from subsidies may vary, depending on the policy objective. This paper develops a general framework to allocate...
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Policy in the pipeline : identifying regional public investment priorities using a natural experiment
Myck, Michał; Najsztub, Mateusz - 2019
We identify regional public investment priorities by studying the development of the water pipe system in the largest district in Poland. For this purpose, we take advantage of a major administrative re-form, implemented on 1 January 1999, which substantially changed the structure of Polish...
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Investment tax credits and the response of firms
Lerche, Adrian - 2022
This paper estimates the direct effects of investment tax credits on firms' production behavior and the additional indirect effects arising from agglomeration economies. Exploiting a change in tax credit rates by firm size in Germany, I find that manufacturing firms increase capital and...
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North-South trade liberalization and returns to skill in the south : the case of Mexico
Hazarika, Gautam (contributor); Otero, Rafael (contributor) - 2008
This study examines the effect of NAFTA, an instance of North-South trade liberalization, on returns to skill in Mexico …. Mexico is abundant in low-skill workers relative to the US and Canada, and so, by the Hecksher-Ohlin-Samuelson trade model …, NAFTA ought to have raised the relative earnings of low-skill workers, that is, lowered returns to skill in Mexico. Analysis …
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Adding rungs to the exporting ladder : plant-level exporting dynamics and total factor productivity growth
Voicu, Alexandru (contributor) - 2008
We use panel data on Mexican manufacturing plants to study the dynamics of plant-level exporting activity at both the extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity growth. We find that exporting activity has a ladder...
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Aid and migration : an analysis of the impact of progresa on the timing and size of labour migration
Angelucci, Manuela (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
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