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Vying for Foreign Direct Investment : A Eu-Type Model of Tax Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2006
This paper brings out the special mechanism through which taxes influence bilateral FDI, when investment decisions are two-fold in the presence of fixed setup flows costs. For each pair of source-host countries, there is a set of factors determining whether aggregate FDI flows will occur at all,...
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Who Offers Tax-Based Business Development Incentives?
Felix, R. Alison - 2011
Many American communities seek to attract or retain businesses with tax abatements, tax credits, or tax increment financing of infrastructure projects (TIFs). The evidence for 1999 indicates that communities are most likely to offer one or more of these business development incentives if their...
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A Quantitative Analysis of Subsidy Competition in the U.S
Ossa, Ralph - 2015
I use a quantitative economic geography model to explore subsidy competition among U.S. states. I ask what motivates …-cooperative and cooperative subsidy choices and assess how far away we are from these extremes. I find that states have strong … closer to cooperative than non-cooperative subsidies but the potential losses from an escalation of subsidy competition are …
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Is China'S FDI Coming at the Expense of Other Countries?
Eichengreen, Barry; Tong, Hui - 2021
We analyze how China's emergence as a destination for foreign direct investment is affecting the ability of other countries to attract FDI. We do so using an approach that accounts for the endogeneity of China's FDI. The impact turns out to vary by region. China's rapid growth and attractions as...
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Recent Chinese Buyout Activity and the Implications for Global Architecture
Antkiewicz, Agata; Whalley, John - 2021
We discuss recent cases of Chinese buyout activity in the OECD (especially in the US and the EU) in resource and manufacturing sectors. While most of the buyout attempts have been unsuccessful, they can serve as a catalyst for a wider discussion on the implications for global arrangements over...
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Skill-Specific Rather then General Education : A Reason for Us-Europe Growth Differences?
Krueger, Dirk; Kumar, Krishna B. - 2021
education subsidy policy we demonstrate that the optimal subsidy for general education increases with the growth rate of …
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Industry Compensation Under Relocation Risk : A Firm-Level Analysis of the EU Emissions Trading Scheme
Martin, Ralf - 2013
When regulated firms are offered compensation to prevent them from relocating, efficiency requires that payments be distributed across firms so as to equalize marginal relocation probabilities, weighted by the damage caused by relocation. We formalize this fundamental economic logic and apply it...
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How Would EU Corporate Tax Reform Affect Us Investment in Europe?
Devereux, Michael P. - 2011
This paper examines the likely impact of a proposed formula apportionment system for corporation tax in the EU on the inbound investment of US multinational companies. We pay attention to tax planning strategies that may be employed by US multinationals and investigate whether effective tax...
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What Drives Home Market Advantage?
Cosar, Kerem - 2015
In the automobile industry, as in many tradable goods markets, firms usually earn their highest market share within their domestic market. The goal of this paper is to disentangle the supply- and demand-driven sources of the home market advantage. While trade costs, foreign production costs, and...
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The Impact of Brexit on Foreign Investment and Production
McGrattan, Ellen - 2017
In this paper, we estimate the impact of increasing costs on foreign producers following a withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the European Union (popularly known as Brexit). Our predictions are based on simulations of a multicountry neoclassical growth model that includes multinational firms...
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