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Locational competition: A neglected paradigm in the international division of labour

Siebert, Horst - 2005

Krugman's verdict that competitiveness of countries is a largely meaningless concept is a serious misjudgement of the economics profession. Countries compete for the mobile factors of production, most importantly for capital and technology. The exit-option of these factors and of firms changes...

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Assessing the Value of Future Accessions to the WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) : Some New Data Sources, Provisional Estimates, and an Evaluative Framework for Individual WTO Members Considering Accession

World Trade Organization - 2011

The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) is a plurilateral Agreement, meaning that it comprises only a subset of the full Membership of the WTO. Currently, a number of WTO Members that are not Parties to the Agreement either are actively seeking accession to it, have commitments to...

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Update to the economic impact assessment of pillar one : OECD/G20 Base Erosion and Profit Shifting Project

O'Reilly, Pierce - 2023

This paper presents an update to the Economic Impact Assessment of Amount A of Pillar One of the Two Pillar Solution to Address the Tax Challenges Arising from the Digitalisation of the Economy. The revised assessment is based on Amount A as detailed in the text of the Multilateral Convention to...

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Policy challenges for the next 50 years

Braconier, Henrik; Nicoletti, Giuseppe; Westmore, Ben - 2014

This paper identifies and analyses some key challenges that OECD and partner economies may face over the coming 50 years if underlying global trends relating to growth, trade, inequality and environmental pressures prevail. For example, global growth is likely to slow and become increasingly...

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Economic policy response to the pandemic : from COVID-19 emergency to economic democracy

FitzRoy, Felix R.; Spencer, David A. - 2020

This review of UK economic policy responses to the Covid-19 crisis identifies serious problems with existing measures. We describe alternative policies which could alleviate hardship, protect business from destruction in the growing depression, facilitate recovery with full employment in a Green...

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Economic Growth and the Role of Taxation - Aggregate Data

Myles, Gareth D. - 2009

Economic growth is the basis of increased prosperity. This makes the attainment of growth a key objective for governments across the world. The rate of growth can be affected by policy choices through the effect that taxation has upon economic decisions and through productive public...

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Effective tax rates of MNEs : New evidence on global low-taxed profit

Hugger, Felix - 2023

The effective taxation of corporate profits is at the centre of an active public and academic debate. This debate is often focused on the extent of low-taxed profit of multinational enterprises (MNEs) in jurisdictions with low statutory tax rates or low average effective tax rates (ETRs)....

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Lessons from the laureates

Breit, William; Hirsch, Barry T. - 2009

This paper uses as source material twenty-three autobiographical essays by Nobel economists presented since 1984 at Trinity University (San Antonio, Texas) and published in Lives of the Laureates (MIT Press). A goal of the lecture series is to enhance understanding of the link between biography...

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Economics for Peace : Léon Walras and the Nobel Peace Prize

Sandmo, Agnar - 2010

This paper is an account of the history of the attempt by Léon Walras to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for 1906. It … describes Walras’ moves to get three of his Lausanne colleagues to nominate him for the Prize, the arguments advanced in the … Walras had realistic reasons to believe that he stood a real chance of winning the Prize, and it evaluates the validity of …

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After the ‘Great Half-Century’ : Post-Crisis Economic Geography in Retrospect and Prospect

Bieri, David S. - 2019

This review assesses the evolution of economic geography over the past two decades, picking up where Scott's (2000) intellectual history of the field's “great-half century” ends. It is part retrospective and prospective; as such, it aims beyond a historical review to outline some ideas about...

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