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Expectations and Expatriations : Tracing the Causes and Consequences of Corporate Inversions

Desai, Mihir A. - 2002

This paper investigates the determinants of corporate expatriations. American corporations that seek to avoid U.S. taxes on their foreign incomes can do so by becoming foreign corporations, typically by 'inverting' the corporate structure, so that the foreign subsidiary becomes the parent...

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Income Misattribution Under Formula Apportionment

Hines Jr., James R. - 2010

Base in Europe, would apportion a firm's worldwide profits using formulas based on the location of employment, capital or … income, since employment and other factors on which they are based do a very poor job of explaining a firm's profits. For … example, the magnitude of property, employment and sales explains less than 22 percent of the variation in profits between …

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Measuring Economic Policy Uncertainty

Baker, Scott R. - 2016

find that policy uncertainty raises stock price volatility and reduces investment and employment in policy … foreshadow declines in investment, output, and employment in the United States and, in a panel VAR setting, for 12 major …

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Health, Employment, and Disability : Implications from the Undocumented Population

Borjas, George J. - 2018

Disability benefit recipients in the United States have nearly doubled in the past two decades, growing substantially faster than the population. It is difficult to estimate how much of this increase is explained by changes in population health, as we often lack a valid counterfactual. We...

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Monetary Policy and Asset Prices : A Look Back at Past U.S. Stock Market Booms

Bordo, Michael D. - 2011

This paper examines the economic environments in which past U.S. stock market booms occurred as a first step toward understanding how asset price booms come about and whether monetary policy should be used to defuse booms. We identify several episodes of sustained rapid rise in equity prices in...

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U.S. Foreign-Exchange-Market Intervention and the Early Dollar Float : 1973 - 1981

Bordo, Michael D. - 2011

The dollar's depreciation during the early floating rate period, 1973 - 1981, was a symptom of the Great Inflation. In that environment, sterilized foreign exchange interventions were ineffective in halting the dollar's decline, but showed a limited ability to smooth dollar movements. Only after...

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The Lessons from the Banking Panics in the United States in the 1930s for the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008

Bordo, Michael D. - 2011

In this paper we revisit the debate over the role of the banking panics in 1930-33 in precipitating the Great Contraction. The issue hinges over whether the panics were illiquidity shocks and hence in support of Friedman and Schwartz (1963) greatly exacerbated the recession which had begun in...

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U.S. Foreign-Exchange-Market Intervention During the Volcker-Greenspan Era

Bordo, Michael D. - 2010

The Federal Reserve abandoned foreign-exchange-market intervention because it conflicted with the System's commitment to price stability. By the early 1980s, economists generally concluded that, absent a portfolio-balance channel, sterilized foreign-exchange-market intervention did not provide...

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Tax Policy and the Efficiency of U.S. Direct Investment Abroad

Desai, Mihir A. - 2011

Deferral of U.S. taxes on foreign source income is commonly characterized as a subsidy to foreign investment, as reflected in its inclusion among "tax expenditures" and occasional calls for its repeal. This paper analyzes the extent to which tax deferral and other policies inefficiently...

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The Urban Mortality Transition in the United States, 1800-1940

Haines, Michael R. - 2011

In the United States in the 19th and early 20th centuries, there was a substantial mortality 'penalty' to living in urban places. This circumstance was shared with other nations. By around 1940, this penalty had been largely eliminated, and it was healthier, in many cases, to reside in the city...

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