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Essays on Systems Competition with Human Capital Mobility

Lange, Thomas - 2010

This thesis is a collection of four stand-alone essays on international competition for human capital, together with a general introduction and some concluding remarks. The first essay deals with decentralized public education and human capital mobility. The international mobility of...

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Firm-level exchange rate exposure in the Eurozone

Hutson, Elaine; O'Driscoll, Anthony

Using a sample of 1154 European firms from 11 countries, we show that firm-levelexchange exposure for Eurozone and non-Eurozone … European firms has increased sincethe introduction of the euro, but this rise was smaller for Eurozone than non … Eurozone countries, so the advent of the euroappears to have been associated with a shift in exchange risk from systematic to …

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Public goods and tax competition in a two-sided market

Kotsogiannis, Christos; Serfes, Konstantinos - 2010

A rather neglected issue in the tax competition literature is the dependence of equilibrium outcomes on the presence of firms and shoppers (two-sided markets). Making use of a model of vertical and horizontal differentiation, within which jurisdictions compete by providing public goods and...

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An auction theoretical approach to fiscal wars

Menezes, FM - 2003

I examine a situation where a firm chooses to locate a new factory in one of several jurisdictions. The value of the factory may differ among jurisdictions and it depends on the private information held by each jurisdiction. Jurisdictions compete for the location of the new factory. This...

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THE IMPACT OF FISCAL DECENTRALIZATION ON GROWTH, INEQUALITY AND LOCAL GOVERNANCE IN RURAL CHINA

Yao, Yi - 2008

This dissertation investigates empirically the consequences of recent fiscal policy changes on China?s rural development. It uses a county-level dataset covering over 90 percent of rural counties and a period of 13 years since 1993, in which China started to experience a series of fiscal reforms...

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Free to Move: Migration, Tax Competition and Redistribution

Lee, Woojin - 2005

We study a model of tax competition between two countries when both skilled and unskilled workers make their migration decisions simultaneously and wages are endogenously determined. If both factors of production are allowed to migrate freely and when the demand for skilled labor is not so...

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The impact of globalization on the composition of government expenditures : evidence from panel data

Dreher, Axel; Ursprung, Heinrich W.; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2008

According to the disciplining hypothesis, globalization restrains governments by inducing increased budgetary pressure. As a consequence, governments shift their expenditures in favour of transfers and subsidies and away from capital expenditures. This expenditure shift is potentially enhanced...

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Corporate Taxation and International Competition

Hines, James R. Jr. - 2005

Countries around the world continue to tax corporate income at significant rates despite downward pressures from international competition. Average statutory corporate income tax rates fell from 46% in 1982 to 33% in 1999, though tax bases simultaneously broadened, as a result of which average...

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Global Corporate Tax Competition for Export Oriented Foreign Direct Investment

Rendon-Garza, Jose Rene - 2006

Economic integration and mobility of capital have set the ground for a significant competition over resources. Tax competition for internationally mobile tax bases such as foreign direct investments has become an important matter of study. Nevertheless, literature has focused on a regional or...

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Adjusting to the Euro

Fagan, Gabriel; Gaspar, Vitor - 2006

In this paper we argue that, for a group of converging economies of the European Union, participation in the euro area has been associated with easier access to financing by domestic economic agents. Easier access to financing was a significant impulse leading to a sharp increase in households'...

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