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The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes
Gumpert, Anna - 2011
This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...
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Globalization, Governance, and the Returns to Cross-Border Acquisitions
Ellis, Jesse A. - 2011
Using a sample of control cross-border acquisitions from 61 countries from 1990 to 2007, we find that acquirers from countries with better governance gain more from such acquisitions and their gains are higher when targets are from countries with worse governance. Other acquirer country...
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Globalization, Government Popularity, and the Great Skill Divide
Aksoy, Cevat Giray - 2018
How does international trade affect the popularity of governments and leaders? We provide the first large … intensive trade has no such effect among the unskilled. To identify exogenous variation in international trade, we exploit the … international trade differ with skill intensity and that skilled individuals respond differently from their unskilled counterparts …
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Assessing International Efficiency
Heathcote, Jonathan - 2013
allocation of resources across developed countries at the business cycle frequency. Here we discuss how evidence on international … quantity comovement, exchange rates, asset prices, and international portfolio holdings can be used to assess efficiency …
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Mobile Scientists and International Networks
Scellato, Giuseppe - 2014
This paper explores the link between mobility and the presence of international research networks. Data come from the … evidence suggests that migration plays an important role in the formation of international networks. Approximately 40 percent … that internationally mobile researchers contribute significantly to extending the international scope and quality of the …
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Cross-Border Banking
Eaton, Jonathan - 2008
intermediation to examine the role of national monetary policy in determining the international competitiveness of a national banking … generate a demand for reserve money (reserve requirements). The international competitiveness of a banking system is enhanced …
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On the Geography of Global Value Chains
Antras, Pol - 2017
specialization of countries within GVCs in a world with barriers to international trade. With costly trade, the optimal location of …
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Digital Labor Markets and Global Talent Flows
Horton, John J. - 2017
Digital labor markets are rapidly expanding and connecting companies and contractors on a global basis. We review the environment in which these markets take root, the micro- and macro-level studies of their operations, their ongoing evolution and recent trends, and perspectives for undertaking...
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The International CAPM and a Wavelet-Based Decomposition of Value at Risk
Fernandez, Viviana - 2010
In this article, we formulate a time-scale decomposition of an international version of the CAPM that accounts for both …
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Why World Redistribution Fails
Slemrod, Joel B.; Kopczuk, Wojciech; Yitzhaki, Shlomo - 2021
An optimal linear world income tax that maximizes a border-neutral social welfare function provides a drastic reduction in world consumption inequality, dropping the Gini coefficient from 0.69 to 0.25. In contrast an optimal decentralized (i.e., within countries) redistribution has miniscule...
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