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Foreign Direct Investment and Domestic Economic Activity
(n/a, 2005)
How does rising foreign investment influence domestic economic activity? Firms whose foreign operations grow rapidly exhibit coincident rapid growth of domestic operations, but this pattern alone is inconclusive, as foreign ...
The Pitfalls of International Integration: A Comment on the Bush Proposal and its Aftermath
(Kluwer Academic Publishers; Springer Science + Business Media, Inc., 2005-01)
In January 2003, the Bush Administration proposed a new system for taxing corporate dividends, under which domestic shareholders in U.S. corporations would not be taxed on dividends they received, provided the corporation ...
Foreign Direct Investment and the Domestic Capital Stock
(2005)
This paper evaluates evidence of the impact of outbound foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestic investment rates. OECD countries with high rates of outbound FDI in the 1980s and 1990s exhibited lower domestic investment ...
Billowing White Goo
(2008)
In this paper, written for a symposium on Fair Use: Incredibly Expanding or Extraordinarily Shrinking?, I argue that the size of the fair use footprint has remained about the same over the past three decades, while the ...
Combating Global Climate Change: Why a Carbon Tax is a Better Response to Global Warming than Cap and Trade
(2009)
Global climate change is the most significant environmental issue facing our nation and the world. There no longer is any question that global warming is occurring. Nor is there any serious debate about whether human ...
Do Tax Havens Flourish?
(2004)
Tax haven countries offer foreign investors low tax rates and other tax features designed to attract investment and thereby stimulate economic activity. Major tax havens have less than one percent of the world's population ...
Environmental Crimes Comes of Age: The Evolution of Criminal Enforcement in the Environmental Regulatory Scheme
(2009)
The Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 often is considered the first environmental criminal statute because it contains strict liability provisions that make it a misdemeanor to discharge refuse into navigable waters of the ...
Economic Effects of Regional Tax Havens
(2004)
How does the opportunity to use tax havens influence economic activity in nearby non-haven countries? Analysis of affiliate-level data indicates that American multinational firms use tax haven affiliates to reallocate ...
Market Reactions to Export Subsidies
(2003)
This paper analyzes the economic impact of export subsidies by investigating stock price reactions to a critical event in 1997. On November 18, 1997, the European Union announced its intention to file a complaint before ...