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Mapping the Future of Insider Trading Law : Of Boundaries, Gaps, and Strategies
Coffee, John C. - 2013
The current law on insider trading is arbitrary and unrationalized in its limited scope in a number of respects. For example, if a thief breaks into your office, opens your files, learns material, nonpublic information, and trades on that information, he has not breached a fiduciary duty and is...
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Banks in the Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal Model
Andrle, Michal - 2015
The Global Integrated Monetary and Fiscal model (GIMF) is a multi-region DSGE model developed by the Economic Modeling Division of the IMF for policy and scenario analysis. This paper compares two versions of GIMF, GIMF with a conventional financial accelerator, where bank balance sheets do not...
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Bilateral tax competition and regional spillovers in tax treaty formation
Petkova, Kunka; Stasio, Andrzej; Zagler, Martin - 2020
Tax treaties are often seen as a means to mitigate fierce tax competition. We challenge this view by arguing that taxes on passive income reduce e↵ective average tax rates, and induce neighbouring countries to react by reducing bilateral tax rates. As opposed to traditional tax competition,...
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Bilateral tax competition and regional spillovers in tax treaty formation
Petkova, Kunka; Stasio, Andrzej; Zagler, Martin - 2020 - Draft: February 28, 2020
Tax treaties are often seen as a means to mitigate fierce tax competition. Building on former literature, we challenge this view by arguing that taxes on passive income reduce effective average tax rates; and induce neighbouring countries to react by reducing bilateral tax rates. As opposed to...
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Hyperbolic Policymakers and Economic Growth
Nocetti, Diego - 2009
In this note I explore how a non-constant rate of time preference on the part of policymakers affects economic growth. In a simple dynamic general equilibrium model I show that if the incumbent government has a rate of time preference in the form of a quasi-hyperbolic discounting function tax...
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Young and innocent : international evidence on age effects within grades on victimization in elementary school
Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - In: Economics letters 109 (2010) 3, pp. 157-160
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Young and innocent international evidence on age effects within grades on school victimization in elementary school
Mühlenweg, Andrea M. - 2009
This study examines the impact of children's age within grade on school victimization in elementary school …. Identification of age effects relies on the instrumental variables approach drawing on official school entry age rules based on … children's month of birth. The empirical analysis uses the PIRLS data for 17 countries where such school entry age rules are …
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Review of Juvenile Justice In Global Perspective
Lynch, Nessa - 2017
In this review, the author considers the collection by U.S.-based juvenile justice scholars on legal and policy frameworks across various international juvenile justice systems. The author analyses the conceptual discussion of the themes of each chapter. These include juvenile justice in Western...
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Young and Innocent - International Evidence on Age Effects Within Grades on School Victimization in Elementary School
Mühlenweg, Andrea - 2009
This study examines the impact of children's age within grade on school victimization in elementary school …. Identification of age effects relies on the instrumental variables approach drawing on official school entry age rules based on … children's month of birth. The empirical analysis uses the PIRLS data for 17 countries where such school entry age rules are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014206379