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Production offshoring and investment by Japanese firms
Kang, Joong Shik; Piao, Shi - 2015
We trace Japanese corporate investment across different types of firms over the past decades and estimate the main determinants of investment. We find that there are differences in investment behavior between firms expanding abroad and those operating mainly in domestic markets. On the back of a...
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Public Expenditure Policy and the Environment : A Review and Synthesis
Miranda, Kenneth M. - 1993
Commonly cited environmental instruments in the legal, regulatory, and fiscal domains are intended primarily to address market failures to ensure that environmental degradation and resource use is contained to appropriate levels. However, in many instances, environmental degradation is rooted...
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A comprehensive greenhouse gas mitigation strategy for The Netherlands
Batini, Nicoletta; Black, Simon; Luca, Oana; Parry, Ian … - 2021
The Netherlands has ambitious greenhouse gas emission reduction targets for the future - to cut them by 49 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 95 percent by 2050. These targets and the likely new EU-wide targets under the recent EU Green Deal entail a rapid acceleration in decarbonization....
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External financing risks : how important is the composition of the international investment position?
Cubeddu, Luis; Ahmed Hannan, Swarnali; Rabanal, Pau - 2021
Building on the vast literature, this paper focuses on the role of the structure of the international investment position (IIP) in affecting countries' external vulnerabilities. Using a sample of 73 advanced and emerging economies and new database on the IIP's currency composition, we find that...
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International taxation and Luxembourg's economy
Mooij, Ruud A. de; Prihardini, Dinar; Pflugbeil, Antje; … - 2020
Luxembourg receives ample investment from multinational corporations, in part due to some attractive features in its international tax rules. Around 95 percent of these foreign investments pass through Luxembourg via companies performing holding and/or intra-group financing activities. While...
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What drives the global land rush?
Arezki, Rabah - 2011
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Global firms, national corporate taxes : an evolution of incompatibility
Hebous, Shafik - 2020
How did the rise of multinational enterprises (MNEs) put pressure on the prevailing international corporate tax framework? MNEs, and firms with market power, are not new phenomena, nor is the corporate income tax, which dates to the early 20th century. This prompts the question, what is...
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International capital flows at the security level : evidence from the ECB's Asset Purchase Programme
Bergant, Katharina; Fidora, Michael; Schmitz, Martin - 2020
We analyse euro area investors' portfolio rebalancing during the ECB's Asset Purchase Programme at the security level. Our empirical analysis shows that euro area investors (in particular investment funds and households) actively rebalanced away from securities targeted under the Public Sector...
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What is real and what is not in the global FDI network?
Damgaard, Jannick; Elkjaer, Thomas; Johannesen, Niels - 2019
Macro statistics on foreign direct investment (FDI) are blurred by offshore centers with enormous inward and outward … investment positions. This paper uses several new data sources, both macro and micro, to estimate the global FDI network while … percent of global FDI. Ignoring phantom investment and allocating real investment to ultimate investors increases the …
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Asymmetries in the coordinated direct investment survey : what lies behind?
Angulo, Emma; Hierro, Alicia - 2017
This paper analyzes asymmetries in direct investment positions reported in the Coordinated Direct Investment Survey (CDIS) following a top down approach. First, it examines asymmetries at global level; second, it examines asymmetries between CDIS reported and derived data for individual...
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