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How institutions shape land deals : the role of corruption

Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2014

Large-scale land acquisitions, or "land grabs", concentrate in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendly setting caused by a weak institutional framework. We argue that corrupt elites exploit this given institutional set-up to strike deals with international...

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How institutions shape land deals : the role of corruption

Bujko, Matthias; Fischer, Christian; Krieger, Tim; … - 2015

Large-scale land acquisitions often take place in developing countries which are also known for their corruption-friendliness caused by weak institutional frameworks. We hypothesize that corruption indeed leads to more land deals. We argue that corrupt elites exploit poor institutional setups...

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BITs with a bite? : EU home investment effects of EU-China bilateral investment treaties

Kuusi, Tero; Ali-Yrkkö, Jyrki - 2021

In this paper, we study the impacts of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) between the EU countries and China on EU home investments. We consider BITs as "treatments" that provide further access to global value chains (GVCs). We identify the causal impacts of the BITs on the relationship...

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A Tax-Systems Perspective on Recent Global Tax Initiatives

Neubig, Thomas S. - 2017

allocation of global income among taxing jurisdictions, information sharing between governments about taxpayers, multilateral … efforts in tax policy and tax administration, and information sharing about governments' tax practices. The paper discusses … two recent global tax initiatives, the G20/OECD Automatic Exchange of Information (AEOI) and the Base Erosion and Profit …

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Extraterritorial Taxation #10 : Violating Human Rights

Snyder, Laura - 2023

This is the tenth in a series of sixteen papers about the U.S extraterritorial tax system.The U.S. extraterritorial tax system violates multiple provisions of international human rights instruments that have been signed, or signed and ratified, by the United States. The rights in question...

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The 2008 financial crisis and taxation policy

Hemmelgarn, Thomas; Nicodème, Gae͏̈tan J.A. - 2010

The 2008 financial crisis is the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression of 1929. It has been characterised by a housing bubble in a context of rapid credit expansion, high risk-taking and exacerbated financial leverage, leading to deleveraging and credit crunch when the bubble burst....

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Challenges to the Multilateral Trading System : The Rising Trade Protectionism Amid the Global Economic Recession

Bucifal, Stanislav - 2009

Since the end of WWII, significant progress has been made on the road the liberalisation of global trade. The establishment of a rule-based multilateral trading system administered by the World Trade Organisation (WTO) has been an important part of this process. Yet trade-restricting national...

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Global aging and fiscal policy with international labor mobility : a political economy perspective

Tosun, Mehmet Serkan - 2009

This paper uses an overlapping generations model with international labor mobility and a politically responsive fiscal policy to examine aging in developed and developing regions. Migrant workers change the political structure composed of young and elderly voters in both labor-receiving and...

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The Ukrainian economy offshoring : estimation of factors' impact and developing measures to combat

Hobela, Volodymyr; Podra, Olha; Batyuk, Bogdan; Levkiv, … - In: Verslas : teorija ir praktika : Vilniaus Gedimino … 23 (2022) 2, pp. 347-356

The study is devoted to the Ukrainian capital outflow analysis, finding main reasons, consequences and working out the recommendations. The purpose of the study was to research the reasons of offshoring, except tax avoidance, to estimate their impact on the state economy and develop the ways of...

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Sovereign Wealth Funds and Emerging Economies : Tools for Boosting Development and Shifting Capital Flows

Zamarioli, Luis H. - 2012

Following the 2008 global financial crisis, Sovereign Wealth Funds (SWFs) gained visibility. Despite the regulation demands by host states, this new sovereign role in international markets can work as an important tool for developing countries. By cushioning imbalance periods and insulating from...

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