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The Cost and Benefits of Tax Treaties with Investment Hubs : Findings from Sub-Saharan Africa

Beer, Sebastian - 2018

This paper investigates the costs and benefits of concluding double tax treaties with investment hubs. Based on a sample of 41 African economies from 1985-2015, the results suggest that signing treaties with investment hubs is not associated with additional investments; yet, these treaties tend...

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Chinese State Capitalism and Western Antitrust Policy

Petit, Nicolas - 2020

Enthused by China's conversion to the free market system in 1978 and its adoption of Western-style market institutions …, the world has spent the last few decades turning a blind eye to China's real “governance” problem: that a shadow Party … country-wide State syndicate”. This paper contends that China's syndicated economic organization is akin to a “supertrust …

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Wie China internen und externen wirtschaftlichenHerausforderungen begegnen will

Bickenbach, Frank; Liu, Wan-hsin - In: Wirtschaftsdienst : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik 103 (2023) 7, pp. 484-490

Volksrepublik China in einer Zeit, in der sie zugleich mit großen internenHerausforderungen zu kämpfen hat. In dieser Situation … Eigenständigkeit Chinas in Wissenschaft und Technologie. Dadurchreduziert China seine Verletzlichkeit im Konflikt mit den USA und …The mounting economic and technological conflict with the U.S. is hitting China's economy at a difficult time. Harsh …

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Government Policy in the Formal and Informal Sectors

Prado, Mauricio - 2011

The paper quantitatively investigates, in general equilibrium, the interaction between the firms’ choice to operate in the formal or the informal sector and government policy on taxation and enforcement, given a level of regulation. A static version of Ghironi and Melitz’s (2005) industry...

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Deals Versus Rules : Policy Implementation Uncertainty and Why Firms Hate it

Hallward-Driemeier, Mary; Khun Jush, Gita; Pritchett, Lant - 2010

Firms in Africa report "regulatory and economic policy uncertainty" as a top constraint to their growth. We argue that often firms in Africa do not cope with policy rules, rather they face deals; firm-specific policy actions that can be influenced by firm actions (e.g. bribes) and...

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Screen Now, Save Later? The Trade-Off between Administrative Ordeals and Fraud

Aman-Rana, Shan; Gingerich, Daniel W.; Sukhtankar, Sandip - 2022

Screening requirements are common features of fraud and corruption mitigation efforts around the world. Yet imposing these requirements involves trade-offs between higher administrative costs, delayed benefits, and exclusion of genuine beneficiaries on one hand and lower fraud on the other. We...

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Macroeconomic and distributional consequences of net zero policies in the United Kingdom

Pareliussen, Jon - 2022

This paper presents new simulation results for the UK combining macroeconomic simulations in ThreeME, a computable general equilibrium model, with household-level micro-simulations with the aim to provide consistent estimates of macroeconomic and distributional consequences of policy action to...

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SME policy responses to the 2022/2023 energy crisis : Policy highlights and country experiences

OECD - 2023

This paper takes stock of one year of policy responses to the 2022/2023 energy crisis triggered by Russia's war of aggression against Ukraine from the perspective of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). In this paper, "SME policy responses" are defined as all government policies, whether...

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The effect of subsidies on R&D investment and success : do subsidy history and size matter?

Aschhoff, Birgit - 2009

This study provides insights into the effects of public R&D grants on R&D input and output of firms from Germany. Previous research has shown that the allocation of R&D project grants is rather stable regarding the pool of beneficiaries. The question is whether this participation pattern can be...

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Analysis on the relationship between the profit tax and investments in the context of a globalised world : case study - Romania

Oanea, Dumitru-Cristian; Apostoaie, Marius Constantin - In: CES working papers 2 (2010) 3, pp. 39-52

Although it is a relative old concept, having ruts in the writings of the late „60s, globalization has become in current times a cliché, being used in many parts of the world and in many languages but not having a specific definition. Financial globalization is considered to be the core...

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