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Over the last decades Argentina’s living standards have lost ground relative to other developed and emerging economies. Putting Argentina on a path to stronger, inclusive and job-rich growth requires boosting productivity and strengthening investment through wide-ranging structural reforms....
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This report presents new evidence on the impact of R&D tax incentives and direct funding of business R&D, drawing on …-19). This “distributed” approach facilitates a harmonised analysis of confidential business R&D and tax relief microdata in 20 … OECD countries. microBeRD provides new insights into the effectiveness of R&D tax incentives in encouraging business R&D in …
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. Systemic relevance should be internalized with a levy (or "tax"), the level of which (or "tax rate") rises with the systemic …
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. Moreover, implementation of the remaining steps in upgrading the tax transparency regulations Luxembourg has committed to can …
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SMEs and entrepreneurs are of critical importance for reaching climate objectives. They have a significant environmental footprint on aggregate, but also make important contributions to reaching net zero through their innovations and greening efforts. This paper discusses the importance of...
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This paper provides a model-based analysis of special tax rules for corporations that invest in stocks of other … corporations. To avoid double taxation the returns from such stock investments (dividends and capital gains) are usually tax …-exempted or taxed at a reduced tax rate. This allows for considerable tax avoidance strategies, which are typically ignored when …
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Financial intermediaries often provide guarantees that resemble out-of-the-money put options, exposing them to tail risk. Using the U.S. life insurance industry as a laboratory, we present a model in which variable annuity (VA) guarantees and associated hedging operate within the regulatory...
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The global crisis of 2008-09 went in hand with sharp fluctuations in capital flows. To some extent, these fluctuations may have been attributable to uncertainty-averse investors indiscriminately selling assets about which they had poor information, including those in geographically distant...
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The global financial crisis of 2007-09 and the ensuing sovereign debt crisis in Europe provide evidence that portfolio rebalancing of financial investors can contribute to spread financial turmoil across countries. Rebalancing of portfolios, in turn, may be driven by the need to meet liquidity...
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