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, we show that more trust in a relationship is associated with higher idiosyncratic investment by suppliers and better part … relationships involving higher trust, buyers are able to induce higher investment and more intense competition among suppliers - but …
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that anticipate the actual tax base incorrectly. I analyze the effects of stochastic taxation on investment behavior in a … the effects of both tax base and tax rate uncertainty, the investment's tax payment is modelled as a stochastic process …. Increased tax uncertainty has an ambiguous impact on investment timing. The view that tax uncertainty depresses real investment …
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how these beliefs shape investment decisions measured in administrative account data. Individuals’ beliefs exhibit …
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We investigate whether investment incentives work in less developed countries by exploiting the introduction of … accelerated depreciation (AD) for fixed asset investment in China as a natural experiment. In contrast to the large positive … stimulating Chinese firms' investment. Further, using confidential corporate tax returns from a large province, we find that firms …
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between countries generates positive investment spillover, intra-firm production linkages predict negative spillover. Using … subsidiary-level data and exogenous corporate tax hikes, we find that local business units cut investment by 0.4% for a 1 …
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In a model on population and endogenous technological change, Kremer combines a short-run Malthusian scenario where income determines the population that can be sustained, with the Boserupian insight that greater population spurs technological change and can therefore lift a country out of its...
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-effective strategies that stabilise CO2 concentrations at 550 or 450 ppm. In particular, this paper analyses the energy investment and R … spillovers across 12 regions of the world, optimal strategies are the outcome of a dynamic game through which inefficiency costs …-term investment strategies for all available energy technologies are determined. The case of an unknown backstop energy technology is …
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regional model of the world economy, in which energy technical change is endogenous. The focus is on disembodied energy R … different regions of the world? Does the speed of innovation increase? Or do free-riding incentives prevail and international …
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Biographical information on a sample of renowned U.S. inventors is combined with information on the patents they received over their careers, and employed to highlight the implications of patent institutions for markets in inventions and for democratization. The United States deliberately...
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This paper investigates how different damage rules in patent infringement cases shape competition when intellectual property rights are probabilistic. I develop a simple model of oligopolistic competition to compare two main liability doctrines that have been used in the US to assess...
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