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Essays on Systems Competition with Human Capital Mobility

Lange, Thomas - 2010

of two countries competing for the international pool of talented students from the rest of the world. To relax tuition … der Welt konkurrieren. Um den Wettbewerb mittels Studiengebühren abzumildern, differenzieren die Länder im Gleichgewicht …

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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 …-setting: small countries, facing elastic supplies of world capital, taxed corporate income at significantly lower rates than did …

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Global Corporate Tax Competition for Export Oriented Foreign Direct Investment

Rendon-Garza, Jose Rene - 2006

global or world-wide competition. Global or world-wide tax competition can be thought of as uncooperative tax policy … reactions between governments of different countries of the world not necessarily near each other geographically, but in similar … economic conditions and with the purpose to influence the allocation of mobile tax bases world-wide. For the purpose of this …

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Sample registration of vital events with verbal autopsy: a renewed commitment to measuring and monitoring vital statistics

Setel, P. W.; Sankoh, O.; Rao, C. P. V.; Velkoff, V. A.; … - 2005

Registration of births, recording deaths by age, sex and cause, and calculating mortality levels and differentials are fundamental to evidence-based health policy, monitoring and evaluation. Yet few of the countries with the greatest need for these data have functioning systems to produce them...

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Internationale Konjunkturverbunde/International Business Cycles

Graff, Michael - 2006

interpreted as the world business cycle. The further components suggest the existence of a Scandinavian-Anglo-Saxon business cycle …

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