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In this paper, we pursue several goals; we first check if the downward trend in corporate income tax rates in Europe reflects a strategy of tax competition, and not a "yardstick competition" in neighboring countries. We estimate the scale of fiscal externalities on neighboring countries in terms...
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This paper contribtes to the small empirical literature dealing with strategic tax behaviors of small EU countries. We estimate tax reaction functions of national governments competing with each other. Deriving a simple model of tax competition in a Nash and Stackelberg framework, we use panel...
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This paper proposes a new way for analysing the international trade of intermediaries good. We consider the case of …-components and macro-components. Then we study the evolution of trade for France and Germany for 20 parts during the period 2003 …
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que d’une augmentation de leur taille. Abstract - The purpose of this paper is to study how export-platform FDI influences …-oriented indus-tries, export-platform FDI leads to a sharp increase in local industrial pro-duction through a net entry of domestic …
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Recent economic literature on the impact of migration on the country of origin has not successfully analyzed the effect … of migration on unemployment and wage rate especially in urban area. Using a detailed CGE model applied to the moroccan … from Sub-Saharan Africa into Morocco and rural-urban migration, the impact on wage rate and unemployment is ambiguous. …
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This article examines the effect of remittances on economic growth, highlighting the main transmission channels. Using the SGMM method, estimates based on data from 27 developing countries show that remittances have a positive and significant effect on economic growth. The results don’t allow...
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Aux XIXe et XXe siècles, la Turquie ne considérait que l'Afrique du Nord comme une partie substantielle de l'Empire ottoman et négligeait l'Afrique subsaharienne à moins que des intérêts vitaux ne soient en jeu. Cependant, l'apathie des gouvernements turcs successifs a changé avec le «...
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investment carried out among Belgian companies, on the other. Foreign direct investment (FDI) flows between Belgium and the rest … of the world have, broadly speaking, followed relatively similar trends to FDI flows observed worldwide, but at the same … and significant differences within the various components making up FDI inflows and outflows, the former consisting …
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We examine FDI’s effects of on domestic investment in Sub-Saharan Africa. Our model’s assumptions are inspired from the … show that FDI exert crowd-out effects in the short-run as well as in the long-run. This result is robust even if we control … by countries’ exports specializations. However, we find out that FDI can facilitate the transfer of investments from the …
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