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The Location of Domestic and Foreign Production Affiliates by French Multinational Firms
Méjean, Isabelle - 2010
Economists interested in location choices usually focus their attention on investments abroad. This neglects the fact that multinational enterprises continue to invest domestically while undertaking foreign expansion. This paper compares investments at home and abroad. Our firm-level dataset...
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Globalization and Corporate Taxation.
Kumar, Manmohan S - 2012
between financial globalization and corporate tax rates and revenues results vary according to country grouping with OECD …. Financial Globalization, Political Economy Factors, and Corporate Tax Rates -- A. Open Economy Macroeconomics -- B …. Globalization and Strategic Considerations -- C. Diffusion of Ideas -- IV. Hypotheses -- V. Data and Measures, and Methodology -- VI …
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Rising Income Inequality : Technology, or Trade and Financial Globalization?
Papageorgiou, Chris - 2008
We examine the relationship between trade and financial globalization and the rise in inequality in most countries in … recent decades. We find technological progress as having a greater impact than globalization on inequality. The limited … overall impact of globalization reflects two offsetting tendencies: whereas trade globalization is associated with a reduction …
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The Declining Importance of Tradable Goods Manufacturing in Australia and New Zealand
Hunt, Ben - 2009
In this paper, the IMF's new Global Economy Model (GEM) is used to estimate the contribution of unbalanced growth to the decline in the share of goods production in Australia and New Zealand. The simulation results suggest that faster productivity growth in the tradable goods sector in...
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New Zealand Bank Vulnerabilities in International Perspective
Cubero, Rodrigo - 2009
The global financial crisis is creating stress on banking systems across the world through funding and asset quality shocks. This paper combines different stress scenarios, as well as cross-country analysis, to assess New Zealand bank vulnerabilities to the global crisis and the domestic...
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In Search of WTO Trade Effects
Eicher, Theo S. - 2009
The literature measuring the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) and WTO membership on trade flows has produced remarkably diverse results. Rose's (2004) seminal paper reports a range of specifications that show no WTO effects, but Subramanian and Wei (2007) contend that he does not...
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Will the Doha Round Lead to Preference Erosion?.
Amiti, Mary - 2006
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The role of risk and information for international capital flows : new evidence from the SDDS
Hashimoto, Yūko; Wacker, Konstantin - 2012
In this paper we investigate whether better information about the macroeconomic environment of an economy has a positive impact on its capital inflows, namely portfolio and foreign direct investment (FDI). The purpose of our study is to explicitly quantify information asymmetries by compliance...
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The Long-Run Trend of Residential Investment in China
Ding, Ding - 2018
In this paper we analyze the fundamental drivers of China's residential investment as a share of its GDP. Our analysis indicates that the economic structural changes that led to rebalancing toward consumption were the key driver of the rising residential investment to GDP ratio in China. We...
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Does Openness to International Financial Flows Raise Productivity Growth?
Prasad, Eswar - 2008
This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of the relationship between financial openness and total factor productivity (TFP) growth using an extensive dataset that includes various measures of productivity and financial openness for a large sample of countries. We find that de jure capital...
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