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Arulampalam, Wiji; Devereux, Michael P.; Liberini, Federica - 2017

We use firm-level data to investigate the impact of taxes on the international location of targets in M&A allowing for heterogeneous responses by companies. The statutory tax rate in the target country is found to have a negative impact on the probability of an acquisition in that country. In...

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A note on the relationship between television viewing and individual happiness

Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2009

In a recently published article, Bruni and Stanca (2008) suggest that television viewing has a negative impact on life satisfaction. In this note we argue that the empirical approach they use (an approach that omits the main effect of TV viewing in life satisfaction) is problematic. We estimate...

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A note on the relationship between television viewing and individual happiness

Kataria, Mitesh; Regner, Tobias - 2009

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Information technologies and subjective well-being : does the internet raise material aspirations? ; conference paper

Lohmann, Steffen - 2013

Existing work on the economics of well-being suggests that a person's subjective well-being depends to a large degree on his relative standing within his social environment. In this paper, we examine whether access to modern information and telecommunication technologies has an impact on...

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The Downward Spiral

Greenwood, Jeremy; Guner, Nezih; Kopecky, Karen A. - 2022

To analyze the opioid epidemic, we construct a model where individuals, with and without pain, choose whether to misuse opioids knowing the probabilities of addiction and dying. These odds are functions of opioid use. Markov chains are estimated from the US data for the college and non–college...

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Death and destitution: the global distribution of welfare losses from the COVID-19 pandemic

Ferreira, Francisco H. G.; Sterck, Olivier; Mahler, … - 2021

welfare losses - combining mortality and poverty and expressed in terms of life-years - depends both on the choice of poverty … low welfare weight on mortality, poorer countries are found to bear a greater welfare loss from the pandemic. When poverty … lines are set differently for poor, middle and high-income countries and/or a greater welfare weight is placed on mortality …

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The marginal utility of income

Layard, Peter R. G.; Mayraz, Guy; Nickell, Stephen J. - 2008 - Revised version

In normative public economics it is crucial to know how fast the marginal utility of income declines as income increases. One needs this parameter for cost-benefit analysis, for optimal taxation and for the (Atkinson) measurement of inequality. We estimate this parameter using four large...

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Safer destinations, healthier staff and happier tourists : opportunities for inclusive water, sanitation and hygiene in tourism

Loehr, J.; Dwipayanti, N. M. U.; Nastiti, A.; Powell, B.; … - In: Tourism management perspectives : TMP 40 (2021), pp. 1-11

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Essays on banks' tax response

Merz, Julia Anna - 2015

This thesis consists of three essays examining banks’ tax response. The first essay Tax vs. Regulation Policy and the Location of Financial Sector FDI is co-authored with Prof. Dr. Michael Overesch, Chair of Business Taxation at the University of Cologne and Prof. Dr. Georg Wamser, Chair of...

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Do stringent environmental policies deter FDI? : M&A versus Greenfield

Bialek, Sylwia; Weichenrieder, Alfons J. - 2015

This study examines how environmental stringency affects the location decision of foreign direct investments. We analyze a firm-level data set on German outbound FDI and innovate on previous studies by controlling for the mode of entry and applying the mixed-logit analysis. The results show that...

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