-2007 and analyzes their impact on corporate tax revenues and domestic and foreign investment. It computes effective tax rates …

This paper introduces a comprehensive database on bank ownership for 137 countries over 1995-2009, and reviews foreign … bank behavior and impact. It documents substantial increases in foreign bank presence, with many more home and host … countries. Current market shares of foreign banks average 20 percent in OECD countries and 50 percent elsewhere. Foreign banks …

-American countries, I investigate how the choice of exchange rate regime affects firms' foreign currency borrowing decisions and the … regimes, firms reduce their levels of foreign currency exposures, in two ways. First, they reduce the share of debt contracted … in foreign currency. Second, firms match more systematically their foreign currency liabilities with assets denominated …

during periods of large capital inflows. We show that bank credit grows more rapidly and its composition tilts to foreign …' incentives to tap external markets and to lend/borrow in foreign currency; these policies include marginal reserve requirements … on foreign lending, currency-dependent liquidity requirements, and higher capital requirement and/or dynamic provisioning …

the traded value. The decrease of the traded volume was not only generated by the foreign investors` reluctance to invest … severe contraction of this domain (especially, the cvasidependence on the foreign capitals and the lack of some strong local …

Foreign investment has been a major factor in Tennessee's economic development. It's not too much to say that it has … transformed this state's economy. This issue of Global Commerce presents a survey of county-level foreign direct investment in …

This paper examines pollution and foreign-capital tax policies on the host country's welfare when foreign … tax with a foreign-investment tax or subsidy. The presence of tax credits may, however, result in a higher investment tax …