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Who Benefits from State Corporate Tax Cuts? A Local Labor Market Approach with Heterogeneous Firms : Further Results

Suárez Serrato, Juan Carlos; Zidar, Owen M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

This paper estimates the incidence of state corporate taxes using new data and methods for estimating the effects on profits. We extend Suarez Serrato and Zidar (2016) by developing two new identification approaches that use the effects of business taxes on the labor demand of incumbent firms...

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Plata y Plomo : How Higher Wages Expose Politicians to Criminal Violence

Pulejo, Massimo; Querubín Borrero, Pablo - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Adequate wages are an important tool to shield public officials from special interests and corruption. But what is the … significantly more likely to prevent corruption in public procurement, a key area of illicit interactions between the state and … limit corruption, but also foster the use of violence as an alternative tool to influence policymaking …

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Foreign ownership and employment growth in Indonesian manufacturing

Lipsey, Robert E.; Sjöholm, Fredrik; Sun, Jing - 2010

Many developing countries would like to increase the share of modern or formal sectors in their employment. One way to accomplish this goal may be to encourage the entrance of foreign firms. They are typically relatively large, with high productivity and good access to foreign markets, and might...

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Tax Policy and Investment in a Global Economy

Chodorow-Reich, Gabriel; Smith, Matthew; Zidar, Owen M.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We evaluate the 2017 Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. Combining reduced-form estimates from tax data with a global investment model, we estimate responses, identify parameters, and conduct counterfactuals. Domestic investment of firms with the mean tax change increases 20% versus a no-change baseline. Due...

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FDI and Superstar Spillovers : Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Transactions

Amiti, Mary; Duprez, Cédric; Konings, Jozef; Van … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

Despite competition concerns over the increasing dominance of global corporations, many argue that productivity spillovers from multinationals to domestic firms justify pro- FDI policies. For the first time, we use firm-to-firm transaction data in a developed country to examine the impact of...

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Climate Risks and FDI

Gu, Grace Weishi; Hale, Galina - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

Climate-related risks have increased in recent decades, both in terms of the frequency of extreme weather events (physical risk) and implementation of climate-change mitigation policies (transition risk). This paper explores whether multinational firms react to such risks by altering their...

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Market Potential and Global Growth over the Long Twentieth Century

Jacks, David S. - 2016

We examine the evolution of market potential and its role in driving economic growth over the long twentieth century. Theoretically, we exploit a structural gravity model to derive a closed-form solution for a widely-used measure of market potential. We are thus able to express market potential...

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House Prices and Rents in the 21st Century

Loewenstein, Lara; Willen, Paul - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the joint evolution of prices and rents of residential property. After constructing rent and price indices for renter- and owner-occupied properties, we decompose the change in the price of occupant-owned property into (1) changes in rent, (2) changes in the relative prices of investor-...

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What Works and For Whom? Effectiveness and Efficiency of School Capital Investments Across The U.S

Biasi, Barbara; Lafortune, Julien M.; Schönholzer, David - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

This paper identifies which investments in school facilities help students and are valued by homeowners. Using novel data on school district bonds, test scores, and house prices for 29 U.S. states and a research design that exploits close elections with staggered timing, we show that increased...

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Are Swedish House Prices Too High? Why the Price-to-Income Ratio Is a Misleading Indicator

Svensson, Lars E. O. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

According to ECB (2023) and European Systemic Risk Board (2022), Swedish owner-occupied housing (OOH) was overvalued by about 55% in 2021q2, the largest overvaluation in the EU and EEA; according to European Commission (2023c), by about 30% in 2022. These assessments affect warnings and...

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