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Target balances and the German financial account in light of the European balance-of-payments crisis
Sinn, Hans-Werner; Wollmershäuser, Timo - 2012
look at the components of this reversal of capital flows for the case of Germany. Its main finding is that most of the … Germany is small by comparison, with purchases of German government bonds increasing substantially, in particular by Spanish … and Irish investors. Some foreign capital even left Germany. In net terms, over the years 2008, 2009 and 2011 foreigners …
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Capital flight and capital income taxation
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2004
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Abschaffung des Steuerprivilegs: Kapitaleinkommen
Gärtner, Manfred - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 94 (2014) 5, pp. 308-309
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Location of Investors and Capital Flight
Botman, Dennis P J; Diks, Cees G H - 2002
This paper utilizes a very simple model to study the timing and determinants of speculationagainst a fixed exchange rate regime when investors are heterogeneous because of locationaldifferences. Location matters because resident players may incur smaller costs when takinga short-position, are...
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Education, Growth, and Redistribution in the Presence of Capital Flight
Chakrabarty, Debajyoti; Chanda, Areendam; Ghate, Chetan - 2006
We construct an overlapping generations model to study the effect of capital controls on human capital investments and the incidence of redistributive politics in a growing economy. We argue that the conventional wisdom linking higher capital controls to lower growth is reproduced only when an...
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Flight capital and its reversal for development financing
Hermes, Niels; Lensink, Robert; Murinde, Victor - 2002
In this paper, we review the theoretical and empirical literature on capital flight. First, we discuss the measurement of capital flight. Next, we provide information on the magnitude as well as the ‘burden’ of capital flight for a selected set of developing countries in four regions of the...
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Ecological dumping and environmental capital flight: The economics behind the propaganda
Kuhn, Michael; Tivig, Thusnelda - 1996
In this paper we analyze the connection between ecological dumping and environmental capital flight which in the literature is presented in three versions: capital flees in order to ecologically dump, firms flee and thus ecologically dump, and capital flees because governments ecologically dump....
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Globalization and the (mis)governance of nations
Blouin, Arthur; Ghosal, Sayantan; Mukand, Sharun - 2012
We analyze whether or not the globalization of capital, disciplines governments and improves governance. We demonstrate that globalization affects governance, by increasing a country's vulnerability to sudden capital flight. This increased threat of capital flight can discipline governments and...
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Does immigration weaken natives' support for the welfare state? Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
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Does Immigration Weaken Natives' Support for the Welfare State? Evidence from Germany
Stichnoth, Holger - 2010
Using data from the 1997 and 2002 waves of the German Socio-Economic Panel and from official statistics, I study whether natives are less supportive of state help for the unemployed in regions where the share of foreigners among the unemployed is high. Unlike previous studies, I use...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011600915