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The Economic Consequences of Legal Origins
Porta, Rafael La - 2007
In the last decade, economists have produced a considerable body of research suggesting that the historical origin of a country's laws is highly correlated with a broad range of its legal rules and regulations, as well as with economic outcomes. We summarize this evidence and attempt a unified...
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Foreign Direct Investment in a World of Multiple Taxes
Desai, Mihir A. - 2001
While governments have multiple tax instruments available to them, studies of the effect of tax policy on the locational decisions of multinationals typically focus exclusively on host country corporate income tax rates and their interaction with home country tax rules. This paper examines the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012470279
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Empirical Models of Arbitrator Behavior Under Conventional Arbitration
Bloom, David E. - 1986
about the extent to which conventional arbitration decisions are fashioned as mechanical compromises of the parties' final … in the arbitration decisions, this evidence of mechanical compromise behavior should be viewed as characterizing the … overall operation of conventional arbitration mechanisms and not the behavior of individual arbitrators in any particular case …
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Attracting FDI in a Politically Risky World
Janeba, Eckhard - 2001
investment in a politically risky world …
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"Tax Sparing" and Direct Investment in Developing Countries
Hines, James R, Jr - 1998
This paper analyzes the effect of and performance of foreign direct investment (FDI). sparing foreign investment income to permit investors to receive the full benefits of host country tax reductions. For example, Japanese firms investing in countries with whom Japan has agreements are entitled...
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Rules, Coordination and Manipulability Among Arbitrators
Currie, Janet - 1991
of wage settlements negotiated without arbitration using a panel of contracts between teachers and school boards in the …
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Recent Research on the Economics of Patents
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
Recent research on the economics of patents is surveyed. The topics covered include theoretical and empirical evidence on patents as an incentive for innovation, the effectiveness of patents for invention disclosure, patent valuation, and what we know about the design of patent systems. We also...
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The Evolution of Corporate Ownership After IPO : The Impact of Investor Protection
Foley, C. Fritz - 2008
Recent research documents that ownership concentration is higher in countries with weak investor protection. However, drawing on panel data on corporate ownership in 34 countries between 1995 and 2006, we show this pattern does not hold for newly public firms, which tend to have concentrated...
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The Role of Foreign Direct Investment in International Capital Flows
Lipsey, Robert E. - 2000
absorbing much of the world's supply, especially in the late 1980s, and then reverted to its earlier net supplier role. Direct …
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Does Political Partisanship Cross Borders? Evidence from International Capital Flows
Kempf, Elisabeth; Luo, Mancy; Schäfer, Larissa; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Does partisan perception shape the flow of international capital? We provide evidence from two settings, syndicated corporate loans and equity mutual funds, to show that ideological alignment with foreign governments affects the cross-border capital allocation by U.S. institutional investors....
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