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An earlier paper titled "Non-linear effects of tax changes on output: The role of the initial level of taxation," estimated tax multipliers using (i) a novel dataset on value-added taxes for 51 countries (21 industrial and 30 developing) for the period 1970-2014, and (ii) the so-called narrative...
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This paper analyzes the effects of the 2014-15 Chilean tax reform on firms' incentives to retain earnings and finance their operations with equity versus debt. The analysis comprises a comparison with the situation of the pre-reform period, and draws some conclusions about firms' valuation. The...
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China, the United States, and India, decided on a more gradual phasing out extending beyond 2030. This paper estimates the … welfare loss of about 1.5 percent. Some of the major emitters, such as China and India, will experience minimal impacts to …
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This explores the impact of a tax reform in some provinces of China which eliminated the value-added tax on some … been to induce labor-saving growth. This experiment has since been extended to the rest of China …
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Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different … twice as important for India as for China, which is much better integrated into global production networks. Even assuming … opportunity for rapid growth in both countries. Accelerated growth through efficiency improvements in China and India, especially …
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context. In China, starting in the 1980s, special economic zones were used as a testing ground for the country's transition … from a planned to a market economy, and they are a prime example of China's pragmatic and experimental approach to reforms …. One of the great special economic zone success stories in China is the Suzhou Industrial Park, a modern industrial …
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A unilateral trade reform generates two opposite effects: market access expansion and strengthening of competitive pressures in the liberalized market. Using detailed trade and firm-level data from France, the authors investigate how French firms' product scope and export sales changed after...
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Use of temporary trade barriers has proliferated across countries, industries, and even policy instruments. This paper constructs a panel of bilateral, product-level United States steel imports that are matched to a unique data set on trade policy exclusions that are associated with the 2002...
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The barriers faced by Chinese rural-urban migrants to access social services, particularly education, in host cities could help explain why the majority of migrants choose to leave their children behind. This paper proposes a theoretical framework that allows for an explicit discussion of the...
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This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New …
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