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This paper estimates a structural model of the Brazilian carbonated soft drink industry to test the claim that the observed low prices of low-end entrants owe to marginal cost advantages over the large, established brands, allegedly stemming chiefly from tax evasion. Such entrants, numbering in...
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The paper uses a comprehensive data set with bilateral direct investment flows and establishes the influence of the de-facto exchange rate regime for FDI flows. We find a strong and significant effect from fixed rates on bilateral FDI flows in developed economies, but no significant effect for...
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The stylized literature on foreign direct investment suggests that developing countries should invest in the human capital of their labour force in order to attract foreign direct investment. However, if educational quality in developing country is uncertain such that formal education is a noisy...
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The paper uses a comprehensive data set with bilateral direct investment flows and establishes the influence of the de-facto exchange rate regime for FDI flows. We find a strong and significant effect from fixed rates on bilateral FDI flows in developed economies, but no significant effect for...
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Illicit financial flows (IFFs) constitute a major challenge for development in the Global South, as domestic resource mobilization is imperative for providing crucial public services. While several methods offer to measure the extent of IFFs, each has its benefits and drawbacks. Critically,...
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Tax treaties between countries influence how much tax revenues governments receive from multinational enterprises. These treaties often reduce the withholding tax rates on outgoing dividend and interest payments. We provide illustrative estimates of costs for these two taxes for 14 developing...
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We employ interactive quantile regressions to assess conditional linkages between foreign aid, iron ore exports and …, it is primarily in the countries with the highest level of iron ore exports that terrorism affects exports. Second …, bilateral aid has an impact on iron ore exports, while the evidence for such a relationship between multilateral aid and iron …
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potentially negative effect of terrorism on fuel exports in 78 developing countries for the period 1984-2008. Bilateral and …. Second, while bilateral aid consistently decreases (increases) fuel exports at the top (bottom) quantiles, multilateral aid … regularly decreases fuel exports in the top quantiles. Third, for negative thresholds in the 50th quartile and 90th decile …
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Linkages between foreign aid, terrorism and natural resource (fuel and iron ore) exports are investigated in this study … specifications corresponding to iron ore exports do not hold. Second, there is evidence of convergence in fuel exports. Third … consistently positive on fuel exports. Fourth, the interaction between terrorism and aid dynamics consistently display negative …
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