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A manufacturer's incentives to undertake non-contractible investments depend on the profit margin on her sales to the retailer, and slotting allowances can facilitate such incentives by increasing unit wholesale prices. At first glance, it is tempting to conclude that slotting allowances should...
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-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In … equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit … investment incentives and transfer pricing induces inefficiently low taxes …
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We study the role of competition for the hold-up problem in foreign direct investment in resource-based industries. The … host country government is not only unable to commit not to expropriate investment ex post, but is also unable to commit to … higher investment levels and increases host country revenues, but hurts profits of international investors …
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We investigate the potential for statistical forecasting of aggregate oil and gas investment on the Norwegian … random walk benchmark in an out-of-sample environment. Second, lags of investment growth, crude oil price growth and realized … volatility is found to be adequate predictors for the investment growth. Finally, there is a clear benefit from re-estimating the …
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This paper analyzes the impact of aging on capital accumulation and welfare in a country with a sizable unfunded social security system. Using a two-period overlapping generation model with potentially endogenous retirement decisions, the paper shows that the type of aging, i.e. declining...
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The optimal investment to mitigate climate change crucially depends on the discount rate used to evaluate the … investment's uncertain future benefits. The appropriate discount rate is a function of the horizon over which these benefits … accrue and the riskiness of the investment. In this paper, we estimate the term structure of discount rates for an important …
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-verifiable managerial effort enhances taxable profits. We show that investment changes following a rise in dividend taxes might not be … investment response, in contrast to insights from previous literature. We provide a testable implication to infer the mode of … investment finance from investment responses. Furthermore, we show that imposing income tax on managerial incentive pay is …
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This paper investigates the relationship linking investment (capital stock) and structural policies. Using a panel of … with less investment (lower capital stock). The paper also sheds light on the existence of non-linear effects of product …, barriers to entrepreneurship and barriers to trade and investment) tend to amplify the negative relationships between product …
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.2% higher today if productivity-enhancing investment intensity had remained at its pre-crisis level …
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the investment decisions made by the companies, while acknowledging for the fact that the companies may report … strategically to the government. An important issue is how tax deductions are to be treated in investment analysis. A discrepancy … arises here between assumptions made in some areas of tax theory and the actual investment analyses conducted by the …
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