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revenue from the graduate tax. -- Human capital investment ; educational risk ; wage risk ; learning effort ; graduate …
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In this paper, we study the role of risk-sharing in entrepreneurship-driven innovation. Studying entrepreneurship and innovation entails modeling an occupational choice and an effort choice. Risk-sharing may increase the number of individuals who become entrepreneurs by limiting the downside...
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We show that an increase in aggregate uncertainty - measured by stock market volatility - reduces productivity growth more in industries that depend heavily on external finance. The mechanism at play is that during periods of high uncertainty, firms that are credit constrained switch the...
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We propose a new methodology to evaluate the gains from global risksharing that is closely connected to the empirical growth literature. We obtain estimates of residual risk (growth uncertainty) at various horizons from regressions of country-specific deviations from world growth on a wide set...
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This article describes the construction of an open-source growth-at-risk (GaR) model. The model provides a flexible analytical tool for policymakers and researchers aiming to use the GaR approach to characterize the probability density of GDP growth conditional on domestic and international...
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Tax uncertainty often negatively affects investment. Advance tax rulings (ATRs) are commonly used as a measure to … provide tax certainty. Rulings are currently controversially discussed in the context of tax planning activities of … multinational firms (Luxembourg Leaks). We analyze ATRs as tax uncertainty shields from both the taxpayers' and the tax authorities …
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Tax uncertainty often negatively affects investment. Advance tax rulings (ATRs) are commonly used to provide tax … certainty. We analyze ATRs from the taxpayers' and tax authorities' perspectives. Investors request ATRs if the fee does not … exceed a certain threshold. We integrate this finding into the tax authorities' decision whether to offer ATRs. We find that …
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Politicians and tax practitioners often claim that tax uncertainty negatively affects investment. In many countries …, firms can request fee-based Advance Tax Rulings (ATRs) to mitigate tax uncertainty. We analyze theoretically the … circumstances under which investors request ATRs, how tax authorities should price them and how they can affect investment. We …
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This paper examines the impact of financial risks on economic growth in the first 15 Member States of the European Union, considering 1995-2014 period and aims to lay down a new explanatory model of economic growth, based mainly on the behavioral reactivity of the financial disruptions mentioned...
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The aim of this paper is to provide an overview of empirical cross-country growth literature. The paper begins by describing the basic framework used in recent empirical cross-country growth research. Even though this literature was mainly inspired by endogenous growth theories, the neoclassical...
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