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Illegal migration and consumption behavior of immigrant households
Dustmann, Christian; Fasani, Francesco; Speciale, Biagio - 2016
We analyze the effect of immigrants' legal status on their consumption behavior using unique survey data that samples both documented and undocumented immigrants. To address the problem of sorting into legal status, we propose two alternative identification strategies as exogenous source of...
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Improving the availability of trade finance in developing countries : an assessment of remaining gaps
Auboin, Marc - 2016
While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared - and might have been worsened during and after the global financial crisis. In fact, there is a consistent...
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Did Chinese outward activity attenuate or aggravate the Great Recession in developing countries?
Gawellek, Bastian; Lyu, Jingjing; Süssmuth, Bernd - 2016
Using data on Chinese large-scale overseas investment and project contracts by sector, we analyze whether Chinese outward activity (COA) before the crisis worsened or alleviated the contractionary phases in developing countries. We find that, on average, COA did not increase vulnerability to the...
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The effect of intellectual property rights on domestic innovation in the pharmaceutical sector
Gamba, Simona - 2016
This paper analyses the causal impact of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) on pharmaceutical innovation in a panel of 74 countries. The identification strategy exploits the different timing across countries of two sets of IPR reforms. Domestic innovation is measured as citation-weighted...
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Corporate taxation, tax administration and financial development
Mardan, Mohammed - 2019
This paper analyzes corporate tax-related policies and the difference between them in developed and developing countries. I show that the relationship between financial development and corporate income tax rates as well as the tax administrations' effectiveness follows a U-shaped pattern, a...
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Coaseian biodiversity conservation : who benefits?
Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2017
We consider a world economy, in which the global public good "biodiversity" is positively correlated with that share of land which is protected by land-use restrictions against the deterioration of habitats and ecosystems. The willingness-to-pay for biodiversity conservation is positive in...
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The quantification of structural reforms : extending the framework to emerging market economies
Égert, Balázs - 2018
outcomes. Lower barriers to foreign trade and investment help MFP. Lower barriers to entry and less pervasive state control of …
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Tax competition in developed, emerging and developing regions : same same but different?
Mardan, Mohammed; Stimmelmayr, Michael - 2018
This paper analyzes tax competition between countries which differ in their country-specific risk. We show that the outcome of asymmetric tax competition crucially depends on the ability of multinational firms to shift profits. With high costs of profit shifting, higher-risk countries set lower...
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World market access of emerging-market firms : the role of foreign ownership and access to external finance
Raff, Horst; Trofimenko, Natalia - 2013
that foreign ownership and access to external finance are statistically significant determinants of the likelihood that a …This paper uses micro-data from the World Bank Investment Climate Surveys 2002-2006 to investigate how foreign … ownership and access to external finance affect the likelihood of manufacturers in emerging markets to export and/or import …
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Payment choice in international trade : theory and evidence from cross-country firm level data
Hoefele, Andreas; Schmidt-Eisenlohr, Tim; Yu, Zhihong - 2013 - This version: July 2013, First version: April 2012
When trading, firms choose between different payment contracts. As shown theoretically in Schmidt-Eisenlohr (forthcoming), this allows firms in international trade to optimally trade-off differences in financing costs and enforcement across countries. This paper provides evidence from a large...
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