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International Taxation
Gordon, Roger H. - 2002
The integration of world capital markets carries important implications for the design and impact of tax policies. This …
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Revenue Tariff Reform
Anderson, James E. - 2013
What kind of tariff reform is likely to raise welfare in situations where tariff revenue is important? Uncertainty about specification and risk from imprecise parameter estimates of any particular specification reduce the credibility of simulation estimates. A promising alternative is to develop...
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How Globalization Affects Tax Design
Hines, James R, Jr - 2009
The economic changes associated with globalization tighten financial pressures on governments of high-income countries by increasing the demand for government spending while making it more costly to raise tax revenue. Greater international mobility of economic activity, and associated...
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Taxing Corporate Income
Auerbach, Alan J. - 2008
Following Meade (1978), we reconsider issues in the design of taxes on corporate income. We outline developments in economies and in economic thought over the last thirty years, and investigate how these developments should affect the design of taxes on corporate income. We consider a number of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464153
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Finance, inequality, and poverty : cross-country evidence
Beck, Thorsten - 2004
"While substantial research finds that financial development boosts overall economic growth, we study whether financial development disproportionately raises the incomes of the poor and alleviates poverty. Using a broad cross-country sample, we distinguish among competing theoretical predictions...
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Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World
Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2000
A Third World data base documenting commodity and factor prices 1870-1940 has been collected, yielding annual time …/rental ratios the world round between 1870 and 1940. The data offer a useful way to identify the impact of globalization on the pre …-industrial Third World. This paper finds commodity price convergence to have been bigger in the Third World than the Atlantic economy …
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Technology and the Task Content of Jobs across the Development Spectrum
Caunedo, Julieta - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Technology is the driver of labor allocation across sectors and occupations. Is the impact of technological change on developing countries similar to its impact on developed countries? Will developing countries follow the same development path that developed economies have taken? Our approach...
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The Trade Reform Wave of 1985-1995
Irwin, Douglas A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
The decade from 1985 to 1995 was an unprecedented period of declining barriers to global trade. The reform wave was especially pronounced in developing countries where overvalued currencies were eliminated, quantitative import restrictions dismantled, and import tariffs reduced. What accounts...
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Sources and Transmission of Country Risk
Hassan, Tarek A.; Schreger, Jesse; Schwedeler, Markus; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use textual analysis of earnings conference calls held by listed firms around the world to measure the amount of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696435
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Dynamic Adjustment and the Demand for International Reserves
Bilson, John F. O. - 1979
greater exchange rate flexibility has not significantly altered the reserve holding behavior of the world's central banks …
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