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A 2004 Social Accounting Matrix for Israel: Documentation of an Economy-Wide Database with a Focus on Agriculture, the Labour Market, and Income Distribution

Siddig, Khalid Hassan Ali; Flaig, Dorothee; Luckmann, … - 2011

reserved for taxes on production factors. A topdown approach is pursued by first building a balanced macro SAM which is …

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The Impact of Immigration on International Trade in Europe: The Case of the EU-Mediterranean-Eastern Europe Zone

Çagatay, Selim; Genç, Murat; Koska, Onur - 2013

We study the impact of migration to the European Union on the volume of international trade in EU. We focus on Southern Mediterranean (such as Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, and Turkey) and Eastern Europe (such as Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Chech...

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Was Easy Access to Credit an Obstacle to the Competitiveness of Spanish Smes?

Garcia-Tabuenca, Antonio; Crecente-Romero, Fernando; … - 2014

-term productive investment. Or, on the contrary, it was not used to increase the size of enterprises and the technological effort and … therefore to internationalize their business investment. The work, which takes a regional approach to capture territorial …. This provides guidance on the Spanish production model and the importance of focusing policies and incentives on business …

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A model of cross-border tourism competition

Kuroda, Tatsuaki; Chen, Kaifan - 2015

Tourism has long been important part of the economy. Specifically, it serves as a kind of resource that performs a significant role in national economies. With the rise of globalization, cross-border tourism has grown and induced intense competition among counties. The present paper highlights...

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The great collapse in value added trade

Nagengast, Arne J.; Stehrer, Robert - 2015

in international production sharing during the crisis may partially account for the observed decrease in global trade …

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How Are Firms Responding to Philippine FTAs?

Aldaba, Rafaelita M.; Medalla, Erlinda M.; Yap, Josef T.; … - 2015

The Philippines has been more cautious in its policy toward free trade agreements (FTAs) than other ASEAN member-states, having signed, so far, only one bilateral agreement with Japan in addition to the various ASEAN+1 agreements. While the government is expected to progressively reduce...

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Political risk, institutions and foreign direct investment: How do they relate in various European countries?

Benáček, Vladimír; Lenihan, Helena; … - 2012

consider the importance of these factors as drivers of foreign direct investment (FDI) for 32 European countries (subsequently …

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The IMF in a world of private capital markets

Eichengreen, Barry; Kletzer, Kenneth; Mody, Ashoka - 2005

The IMF attempts to stabilize private capital flows to emerging markets by providing public monitoring and emergency finance. In analyzing its role we contrast cases where banks and bondholders do the lending. Banks have a natural advantage in monitoring and creditor coordination, while bonds...

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Why pay more? Corporate Tax Avoidance through Transfer Pricing in OECD Countries

Bartelsman, Eric J.; Beetsma, Roel - 2000

This paper presents suggestive evidence of income shifting in response to differences in corporate tax rates for a large selection of OECD countries. We use a new method to disentangle the income shifting effects from the effects of tax rates on real activity. Our baseline estimates suggest that...

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Private Interests and Government Policy in a Global World

Jones, Ronald W. - 2000

Today’s global world is characterized not only by a high volume ofinternational trade and foreign investment relativeto … and outsourcing of production.. Emphasized is thepossibility of a “civil war” scenario wherebygovernment attempts to …

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