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Tax Revenue Trends in Asia and Latin America : A Comparative Analysis
Aizenman, Joshua - 2015
We take stock of and compare tax revenue trends in Asia and Latin America. The tax revenues to GDP ratios increased …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011112
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Currency and Financial Crises of the 1990s and 2000s
Razin, Assaf - 2011
leading to severe banking crisis in Japan; 2) The foreign reserves' meltdown triggered by foreign hot money flight from frothy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013130560
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Why Has the Yen Failed to Become a Dominant Invoicing Currency in Asia? A Firm-Level Analysis of Japanese Exporters' Invoicing Behavior
Ito, Takatoshi - 2010
the yen's status as an only fully convertible currency in Asia, two patterns stand out as puzzling features of an … exports to advanced countries, and second, the prevalence of US dollar invoicing in Japanese exports to East Asia even though … Japanese firms grew; and (2) the production/trade structure of Japanese electronics companies in Asia in which final products …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139736
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Upstart Industrialization and Exports, Japan 1880-1910
Meissner, Christopher M. - 2017
evidence that Japan exported low quality manufactured goods to new, low-income destinations. Instead, reductions in trade costs … helped Japan augment market share. Exit is relatively rare but appears to be determined by market-specific demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012954913
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Explaining Foreign Holdings of Asia's Debt Securities : The Feldstein-Horioka Paradox Revisited
Horioka, Charles Yuji - 2015
the Eurozone economies, the US, and developing Asia showing relatively weak home bias and advanced Asia, especially Japan … capital has been flowing from the US and the Eurozone economies to both advanced Asia (especially Japan) and developing Asia … reasons. The main reason in the case of advanced Asia (especially Japan) appears to be higher risk-adjusted returns, whereas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011459
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How Much Equity Does the Government Hold?
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2011
A central point in the recent debate about Social Security in the United States has been the extent to which the federal government should take significant positions in the equity market. But, as this paper shows, the government already has a much more significant, if implicit position in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013133104
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De Facto Fiscal Space and Fiscal Stimulus : Definition and Assessment
Aizenman, Joshua - 2010
We define the notion of a 'de facto fiscal space' of a country as the inverse of the tax-years it would take to repay the public debt. Specifically, we measure the outstanding public debt relative to the de facto tax base, where the latter measures the realized tax collection, averaged across...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135878
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Dividends and Profits : Some Unsubtle Foreign Influences
Hines Jr., James R. - 2010
American corporations earn a large and growing share of their profits from their foreign operations. This paper evaluates the effect of foreign earnings on dividend payments by American corporations. The results suggest that the effect may be rather dramatic: that, all other things equal, U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013138251
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Cigarette Excise Taxation : The Impact of Tax Structure on Prices, Revenues, and Cigarette Smoking
Chaloupka, Frank J. - 2010
The main purpose of this study is to provide empirical evidence on the effects of the cigarette excise tax structure on three outcomes: cigarette prices, government revenues, and cigarette consumption. We composed cross-sectional time-series data for 21 EU countries from year 1998 to 2007 from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013139133
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The Revenue Demands of Public Employee Pension Promises
Novy-Marx, Robert - 2012
We calculate increases in contributions required to achieve full funding of state and local pension systems in the U.S. over 30 years. Without policy changes, contributions would have to increase by 2.5 times, reaching 14.1% of the total own-revenue generated by state and local governments. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098813