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Tax policy is among the most common and relevant instruments in the toolkit of policy-makers when thinking about promoting growth, yet there is not compelling evidence regarding its effect in Latin American countries. Using a variety of approaches, we estimate the effects on growth of the most...
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We test under what circumstances boards discipline managers and whether such interventions improve performance. We exploit exogenous variation due to the staggered adoption of corporate governance laws in formerly Communist countries coupled with detailed ‘hard’ information about the...
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This paper argues that in revising the Takeover Bid Directive, EU policymakers should adopt a neutral approach toward takeovers, i.e. enact rules that neither hamper nor promote them. The rationale behind this approach is that takeovers can be both value-creating and value-decreasing and there...
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This paper investigates how corporate income taxes affect international trade, and identifies the underlying channel … unlikely to hurt international trade. …
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tax rates across countries. In this paper I explore the interaction between multinational taxation and abatement … activities under an international emissions permit trading scheme. Four types of plans are considered: (1) a single domestic … permit system with international offsets; (2) separate national permit systems without trade; (3) separate national permit …
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We use newly linked tax records to show that the large responses of UK company owner-managers to personal taxes are due to intertemporal income shifting and not to reductions in real business activity. Around half of this shifting is short-term and helps prevent volatile incomes being taxed more...
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