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The IMF Working Papers series is designed to make IMF staff research available to a wide audience. Almost 300 Working Papers are released each year, covering a wide range of theoretical and analytical topics, including balance of payments, monetary and fiscal issues, global liquidity, and...
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This paper highlights key issues pertinent for the understanding of international effects of domestic tax policies and of international tax harmonization. The analytical framework adopts the saving-investment balance approach to the analysis of international economic interdependence focusing on...
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(FDI) between 1987 and 1996. In contrast to earlier work, our results suggest that FDI leads to substantial productivity … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for import-related spillovers, but it …
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' hypothesis that foreign innovation activities tap into foreign R and D and improve home productivity through knowledge spillovers …
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pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that … productivity growth. The authors also find that a production-share weighted average of (technological leaders’) sectoral … productivity growth rates has a significant effect on the rate of aggregate productivity growth …
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We explore the role of business services in knowledge accumulation and growth and the determinants of knowledge diffusion including the role of distance. A continuous-time model is estimated on several European countries, Japan, and the United States. Policy simulations illustrate the benefits...
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-run temperature increases are limited to 3 degrees. This occurs because policy not only encourages green innovations but also … dissuades dirty innovations which would otherwise spread. The most effective policy package in emissions-reducing regions is a …
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; (iv) ultimately, a superior option-for both the world's climate and growth prospects-is the development of clean energy …
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Evidence from historical and epidemiological literatures show that epidemics tend to spread in the population according to a logistic pattern. We conjecture that the impact of new technologies on output follows a pattern of spread not unlike that of typical epidemics. After reaching a critical...
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participation in the World Trade Organization, or, more controversially, some form of bilateral punishment, may be used …
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