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Collateral damage: trade disruption and the economic impact of war

Taylor, Alan M.; Glick, Reuven - 2005

Conventional wisdom in economic history suggests that conflict between countries can be enormously disruptive of economic activity, especially international trade. Yet nothing is known empirically about these effects in large samples. We study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all...

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Competition policy, trade and the global economy: Existing WTO elements, commitments in regional trade agreements, current challenges and issues for reflection

Anderson, Robert D.; Kovacic, William E.; Müller, Anna … - 2018

Competition policy, today, is an essential element of the legal and institutional framework for the global economy. Whereas decades ago, anti-competitive practices tended to be viewed mainly as a domestic phenomenon, most facets of competition law enforcement now have an important international...

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The use of tax havens in exemption regimes

Gumpert, Anna; Hines, James R.; Schnitzer, Monika - 2011

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...

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The use of tax havens in exemption regimes

Gumpert, Anna; Hines Jr., James R.; Schnitzer, Monika - 2012

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Reassessing the Effects of Corporate Income Taxes on Mergers and Acquisitions Using Empirical Advances in the Gravity Literature

Bradley, Sebastien; Carril-Caccia, Federico; Yotov, Yoto V. - 2023

We study the relationship between corporate income taxes and mergers and acquisitions (M&As). To this end, we compile and deploy a dataset consisting of all cross-border and domestic M&A deals for 118 source (acquirer) and 122 destination (target) countries and 84 sectors over the period...

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Pitfalls in the use of ad valorem equivalent representations of the trade impacts of domestic policies

Whalley, John - 2005

Numerical simulation exercises to analyze the impacts of potential changes in non-tariff policies commonly use ad valorem equivalent tariff treatment even though estimated impacts using explicit model representation and ad valorem equivalent treatments will differ. The difficulty for modellers...

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USA: Wie wichtig ist die Wirtschaftspartnerschaft für uns? Eine mehrdimensionale Analyse der deutsch-amerikanischen Wirtschaftsbeziehungen

Kolev-Schaefer, Galina; Sultan, Samina - 2024

abzubauen. Von dieser Entwicklung profitieren auch die transatlantischen Beziehungen. So waren die USA selbst beim Warenhandel …, sind die USA mit großem Abstand der wichtigste Abnehmer von Exportprodukten Made in Germany. Um mehr als zwei Drittel sind … die deutschen US-Exporte höher als die nach China. Die herausragende Bedeutung der USA als Exportzielland variiert von …

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Germany, Europe and the crisis

Halevi, Joseph - In: PSL Quarterly Review 76 (2023) 306, pp. 215-223

This paper will put forward a number of economic considerations raised by the Russia-Ukraine conflict with the external strong participation, on the side of the latter, of the United States and its NATO allies. We begin with some observations regarding the United States, followed by the...

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The WTO's Problematic "Last Resort" Against Noncompliance

Charnovitz, Steve - In: Aussenwirtschaft 57 (2002) 4, pp. 407-440

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Indisputably essential: The economics of dispute settlement institutions in trade agreements

Keck, Alexander; Schropp, Simon - 2007

Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...

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