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Internalizing Externalities : Disclosure Regulation for Hydraulic Fracturing, Drilling Activity and Water Quality
Bonetti, Pietro; Leuz, Christian; Michelon, Giovanna - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
dispersed environmental externalities with disclosure regulation to create public pressure reduces their environmental impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537736
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The Regulation of Medical AI : Policy Approaches, Data, and Innovation Incentives
Stern, Ariel Dora - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
are subject to regulation by local authorities, resulting in both practical and strategic implications for manufacturers …, along with a more complex set of innovation incentives. This chapter presents background on medical device regulation … adverse events and recalls), and concludes with a discussion of the implications of regulation for innovation incentives in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477189
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Do Enlarged Fiscal Deficits Cause Inflation : The Historical Record
Bordo, Michael D. - 2020
In this paper we survey the historical record for over two centuries on the connection between expansionary fiscal policy and inflation. As a backdrop, we briefly lay out several theoretical approaches to the effects of fiscal deficits on inflation: the earlier Keynesian and monetarist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482414
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Automatic Stabilizers and Economic Crisis : US vs. Europe
Dolls, Mathias - 2010
This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the European Union and the US to act as an automatic stabilizer in the current economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38 per cent of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32 per cent in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462382
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Fiscal and Migration Competition
Razin, Assaf - 2010
It is often argued that tax competition may lead to a "race to the bottom". Such a race may hold indeed in the case of the pure case of factor mobility (such as capital mobility). However, in this paper we emphasize the unique feature of labor migration, that may nullify the "race to the bottom"...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462431
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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466680
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Three Current Account Balances : A "Semi-Structuralist" Interpretation
Chinn, Menzie D. - 2005
Three large current account imbalances -- one deficit (the United States) and two surpluses (Japan and the Euro area) -- are subjected to a minimalist structural interpretation. Though simple, this interpretation enables us to assess how much of each of the imbalances require a real exchange...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466819
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Trade Invoicing in the Accession Countries : Are They Suited to the Euro?
Goldberg, Linda - 2005
The accession countries to the euro area are increasingly binding their economic activity, external and internal, to the euro area countries. One aspect of this phenomenon concerns the currency invoicing of international trade transactions, where accession countries have reduced their use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467023
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Goods and Factor Market Integration : A Quantitative Assessment of the EU Enlargement
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2017
The economic effects from labor market integration are crucially affected by the extent to which countries are open to trade. In this paper we build a multi-country dynamic general equilibrium model with trade in goods and labor mobility across countries to study and quantify the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012454987
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Open Borders in the European Union and Beyond : Migration Flows and Labor Market Implications
Kennan, John - 2017
In 2004, the European Union admitted 10 new countries, and wages in these countries were generally well below the levels in the existing member countries. Citizens of these newly-admitted countries were subsequently free to take jobs anywhere in the EU, and many did so. In 2015, a large number...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455632