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Cyber Risk Surveillance : A Case Study of Singapore
Goh, Joseph - 2020
illustrates these techniques by applying them to Singapore. As an advanced economy with a complex financial system and rapid … adoption of fintech, Singapore serves as a good case study. We place our results in the context of recent cybersecurity …
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Experiences with Macroprudential Policy — Five Case Studies
Darbar, Salim M. - 2015
Zealand, Singapore, and Sweden). The case studies describe the institutional framework, its evolution, the use of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019024
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Singapore's Export Elasticities : A Disaggregated Look into the Role of Global Value Chains and Economic Complexity
Arbatli, Elif C. - 2016
Singapore is one of the world's most open economies, with the size of its trade reaching about 350 percent of its GDP …. With the rise of highly diversified cross-border production networks, Singapore has come to play an integral role in the …, using disaggregate industry/product level trade data, we revisit Singapore's export elasticities and find that growing …
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Did Output Recover from the Asian Crisis?
Cerra, Valerie; Saxena, Sweta C. - 2005
This paper investigates the extent to which output has recovered from the Asian crisis. A regime-switching approach that introduces two state variables is used to decompose recessions in a set of six Asian countries into permanent and transitory components. While growth recovered fairly quickly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014073466
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Outward Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Investment : The Case of Developing Countries
Alsadiq, Ali - 2013
Over the past two decades, the growth rate of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from developing and transition economies has increased significantly. Given the role of physical capital accumulation in determining the economic growth rate, it is important to assess how domestic investment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085137
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Globalization and Corporate Taxation
Kumar, Manmohan - 2013
This paper analyzes the extent to which the degree of international economic integration, both financial and trade, affects corporate tax rates. It explores this issue in the context of strategic behavior by countries, taking into account other global and domestic political economy factors. Tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013088735
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Do FDI Firms Employ More Workers than Domestic Firms for Each Dollar of Assets?
Ando, Sakai - 2020
This paper studies whether FDI firms employ more workers than domestic firms for each dollar of assets. Using the Orbis database and its ownership structure information, we show that, in most economies, domestic firms tend to employ more workers per asset than FDI firms. The result remains...
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The Impact of Profit Shifting on Economic Activity and Tax Competition
Klemm, Alexander - 2020
A growing empirical literature has documented significant profit shifting activities by multinationals. This paper looks at the impact of such profit shifting on real activity and tax competition. Real activity can be affected as profit shifting changes-and theoretically most likely reduces-the...
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Network Determinants of Cross-Border Merger and Acquisition Decisions
Didier, Tatiana - 2020
This paper assesses whether cross-border M&A decisions exhibit network effects. We estimate exponential random graph models (ERGM) and temporal exponential random graph models (TERGM) to evaluate the determinants of cross-country M&A investments at the sectoral level. The results show that...
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What is Real and What is Not in the Global FDI Network?
Damgaard, Jannick - 2020
Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers withenormous inward and outward investment positions. This paper uses several new datasources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while disentangling realinvestment and phantom investment...
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