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Taxing Telecommunications in Developing Countries

Matheson, Thornton - 2017

of higher consumer prices and lower connectivity. Taxes on capital inputs and consumer access, which distort production … and restrict network access, should be avoided; so should tax incentives, which are not needed to attract foreign capital …

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Determinants and Social Dividends of Digital Adoption

Kumar, Utkarsh; Amaglobeli, David; Moszoro, Marian - 2023

We identify key drivers of digital adoption, estimate fiscal costs to provide internet subsidies to households, and calculate social dividends from digital adoption. Using cross-country panel regressions and machine learning, we find that digital infrastructure coverage, internet price, and...

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Accounting for Cloud Computing in the National Accounts

Baer, Andrew L. - 2020

, this is changing the information and communication technology (ICT) investment pattern from one where ICT investment was … diversified across many industries to a more concentrated investment pattern. Additionally, this is having an impact on cross … these changes are having on the way users of national accounts data look at investment and trade in commercial services …

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Tec(h)tonic Shifts : Taxing the 'Digital Economy'

Aslam, Aqib - 2020

The ever-increasing digitalization of businesses has accelerated the need to address the many shortcomings and unresolved issues within the international corporate income tax system. In particular, the customer or 'user'-through their online activities-is now considered by many as being a...

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Productivity Drag from Small and Medium-Sized Enterprises in Japan

Colacelli, Mariana - 2019

, demographic factors, and lack of intangible capital investment are discussed as contributors to the slow productivity growth of …

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U.S. Investment Since the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017

Kopp, Emanuel - 2019

There is no consensus on how strongly the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (TCJA) has stimulated U.S. private fixed investment …. Some argue that the business tax provisions spurred investment by cutting the cost of capital. Others see the TCJA … primarily as a windfall for shareholders. We find that U.S. business investment since 2017 has grown strongly compared to pre …

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Global Declining Competition

Díez, Federico - 2019

Using a new firm-level dataset on private and listed firms from 20 countries, we documentfive stylized facts on market power in global markets. First, competition has declinedaround the world, measured as a moderate increase in average firm markups during 2000-2015. Second, the markup increase...

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Competition, Competitiveness and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa

Chérif, Réda - 2020

-is associated with an increase in firm's investment and the labor's share in output. These effects are more pronounced in the …

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Corruption, Governmental Activities, and Markets

Tanzi, Vito - 2006

Paper discusses the factors that contribute to the spread of corruption as well as the implications of corruption for markets and for public sector activities. It is argued that corruption can be contained mainly by a scaling down of the public sector activities that stimulate its growth

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Public versus Private Cost of Capital with State-Contingent Terminal Value

Moszoro, Marian W. - 2016

The choice of infrastructure delivery through public versus private provision is driven by investment and operational …

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