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The world today finds itself in a recession. The global recession was caused by unsustainable borrowing provoked by the self destructive and incoherent “war on terror” in concert with irresponsible bank lending – bad debt. These policies have repercussions beyond the immediate recession:...
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This contribution deals with the legal and institutional problems raised by the operation of the common currency in the euro Member States, and in particular with the legal framework needed to resolve the problems created by the currency crisis. The theoretical basis for the solution of these...
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This paper compares dynamic relationship between economic growth and corporate tax rate during the recent financial crisis and the non-crisis period using a panel VAR for 29 OECD countries over the period 1998-2016. The results show that corporate tax rate has a significantly negative effect on...
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We analyse the trend among 79 banks from 20 European countries towards scrip dividends. Whereas banks do not seem to smooth cash dividends, they do smooth total dividends, which include both cash and scrip dividends. We also find that the new legal requirements (resulting from the Basel Accords...
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Conventional economic analysis assumes that Central Counterparties (CCPs) may help to reduce systemic risk and avoid future financial crises by mandating the central clearing of over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives. This view largely goes unchallenged by governments, regulators, practitioners, and...
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This article addresses the origins and potential evolutionary perspectives of one of the most frequently recurring words in the international tax policy debate: transparency. In doing so, this study introduces a two-level analysis. At a background level, it acknowledges that transparency is - by...
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