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Corporate Takeovers
Causes and Consequences
Häftad, 1991
396 kr
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The takeover boom that began in the mid-1980s has exhibited many phenomena not previously observed, such as hostile takeovers and takeover defenses, a widespread use of cash as a means of payment for targeted firms, and the acquisitions of companies ranking among the largest in the country. With …
Effects of U.S. Trade Protection and Promotion Policies
Inbunden, 1997
943 kr
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Economists disagree on whether recent US trade policies are harmful or helpful, but they all agree that there is a trend towards focusing on results-oriented policies in specific markets and with particular trading markets. These 12 essays explore crucial issues in US trade policy, examining topics …
Taxing Multinational Corporations
Av Martin Feldstein, James R. Hines m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
299 kr
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Written for a non-technical audience, this book summarizes the research on the structure and effects of tax policies collected in "The Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations". The book covers such practical issues as the impact of tax law on US competitiveness, the volume and location of …
Effects of Taxation on Multinational Corporations
Av Martin Feldstein, James R. Hines m. fl.
Inbunden, 1995
867 kr
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The tax rules of the United States and other countries have intended and unintended effects on the operations of multinational corporations, influencing everything from the formation and allocation of capital to competitive strategies. The growing importance of international business has led …
Empirical Foundations of Household Taxation
Av Martin Feldstein, James M. Poterba
Inbunden, 1996
694 kr
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The nine papers in this volume exploit the substantial variation in U.S. tax policy during the last two decades to investigate how taxes affect a range of household behaviour, including labour-force participation, saving behaviour, choice of health insurance plan, choice of child care arrangements, …
Privatizing Social Security
Inbunden, 1998
1011 kr
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This volume presents one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. While social security encounters enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an ageing population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through …
Privatizing Social Security
Häftad, 2000
428 kr
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This volume presents one of the pressing policy issues of the moment: the privatization of social security. While social security encounters enormous fiscal pressure in the face of an ageing population, there has been relatively little published on the fundamentals of essential reform through …
Regionalization of the World Economy
Inbunden, 1997
659 kr
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Regional economic arrangements such as free trade areas (FTAs), customs unions, and currency blocs, have become increasingly prevalent in the world economy. Both pervasive and controversial, regionalization has caused some economists to be optimistic about the opportunities it creates and others …
Internationalization of Equity Markets
Inbunden, 1995
967 kr
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This volume addresses three important recent trends in the internationalization of equity markets. These trends are: extensive market integration through foreign investment and links among stock prices around the world; increasing securitization of other markets at the expense of banks; and the …
Studies in International Taxation
Av Alberto Giovannini, R. Glenn Hubbard m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
844 kr
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As a united global economy evolves, economists and policymakers are forced to consider whether the current system of taxing income is inconsistent with the trend toward liberalized world financial flows and increased international competition. To help assess existing tax policies and incentives, …
Studies in International Taxation
Av Alberto Giovannini, R. Glenn Hubbard m. fl.
Häftad, 1996
361 kr
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As a united global economy evolves, economists and policymakers are forced to consider whether the current system of taxing income is inconsistent with the trend toward liberalized world financial flows and increased international competition. To help assess existing tax policies and incentives, …
R&D, Patents and Productivity
Häftad, 1987
555 kr
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"An essential reference for specialists in the economics of technological change."--D. G. McFertridge, Canadian Journal of Economics
Political Economy of American Trade Policy
Inbunden, 1996
1157 kr
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Exploring the political and economic determinants of trade protection, this study provides a range of information on key American industries and documents the process of seeking and conferring protection. Eight analytical histories of the automobile, steel, semiconductor, lumber, wheat, and textile …
Political Economy of Trade Protection
Inbunden, 1996
440 kr
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This summary examines the level, form and evolution of American trade protection. In case studies of trade barriers imposed during the 1980s to help the steel, semiconductor, automobile, lumber, wheat, and textile and clothing industries, the contributors trace the evolution of efforts to obtain …
International Comparisons of Household Saving
Inbunden, 1995
776 kr
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Governments and corporations may contribute, but around the world household saving is the biggest factor in national saving. To increase understanding of why saving rates differ across countries, this volume provides analyses of patterns of household saving behaviour in Canada, Italy, Japan, …
Fiscal Federalism
Quantitative Studies
Inbunden, 1988
838 kr
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We often think of fiscal decisions as being made by a single government, but in the United States the reality is that an astounding number of entities have the power to tax and spend. State, local, and federal governments all play crucial roles in the U.S. fiscal system, and the interrelation has …
Developing Country Debt and the World Economy
Häftad, 1991
334 kr
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For dozens of developing countries, the financial upheavals of the 1980s have set back economic development by a decade or more. Poverty in those countries have intensified as they struggle under the burden of an enormous external debt. In 1988, more than six years after the onset of the crisis, …
Canada-U.S. Tax Comparisons
Av John B. Shoven, John Whalley
Inbunden, 1992
1015 kr
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In the increasingly global economy, domestic tax policies have taken on a new importance for international economics. This unique volume compares the tax reform experiences of Canada and the United States, two countries with the world's largest bilateral flow of trade and investment. With the …
Topics in the Economics of Aging
Inbunden, 1992
1413 kr
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The original essays and commentary in this volume—the third in a series reporting the results of the NBER Economics of Aging Program—address issues that are of particular importance to the well-being of individuals as they age and to a society at large that is composed increasingly of older …
Advances in the Economics of Aging
Inbunden, 1996
1562 kr
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This volume presents research on issues of importance to the well-being of older persons, including: labour market behaviour, health care, housing and living arrangements, and saving and wealth. Specific topics include the effect of labour market rigidities on the employment of older workers; the …
Inquiries in the Economics of Aging
Inbunden, 1998
668 kr
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For over a decade, the National Bureau of Economic Research has sponsored the Economics of Aging Program, under the direction of David A. Wise. The program addresses issues that affect the well-being of individuals as they age and a society that is composed increasingly of older people. Within the …
Immigration, Trade, and the Labor Market
Av John M. Abowd, Richard B. Freeman
Inbunden, 1991
1015 kr
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Are immigrants squeezing Americans out of the work force? Or is competition wth foreign products imported by the United States an even greater danger to those employed in some industries? How do wages and unions fare in foreign-owned firms? And are the media's claims about the number of illegal …
Politics and Economics in the Eighties
Av Alberto Alesina, Geoffrey Carliner
Häftad, 1991
428 kr
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Is the federal budget deficit a result of congressional deadlocks, gross miscalculation of economic trends, or a Republican strategy to tie the budgetary hands of future Democratic leadership? To what extend does the partisan split between Congress and the executive branch constrain the president's …
Mergers and Acquisitions
Häftad, 1991
273 kr
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Do mergers lead to financial instability? How are shareholders' interests best served? How significant a role do taxes play? What are the implications for the structure and concentration of industry? Mergers and Acquisitions, prepared in an nontechnical format, answers these and other questions …
Generational Accounting around the World
Av Alan J. Auerbach, Laurence J. Kotlikoff m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1229 kr
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The realities of mounting government debt, tax burdens, and an ageing population raise serious concerns about the financial legacy confronting future generations. How great a fiscal burden will late-1990s policies leave to subsequent generations, and how might changes in those policies alter the …
National Saving and Economic Performance
Av John B. Shoven, B. Douglas Bernheim
Inbunden, 1991
1028 kr
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The past decade has witnessed a decline in saving throughout the developed world—the United States has the dubious distinction of leading the way. The consequences can be serious. For individuals, their own economic security and that of their families is jeopardized. For society, inadequate rates …
Issues in Pension Economics
Av Zvi Bodie, John B. Shoven m. fl.
Inbunden, 1987
1075 kr
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In the past several decades, pension plans have become one of the most significant institutional influences on labor and financial markets in the U.S. In an effort to understand the economic effects of this growth, the National Bureau of Economic Research embarked on a major research project in …
Pensions in the U.S. Economy
Av Zvi Bodie, John B. Shoven m. fl.
Inbunden, 1988
685 kr
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Pensions in the U.S. Economy is the fourth in a series on pensions from the National Bureau of Economic Research. For both economists and policymakers, this volume makes a valuable contribution to current research on pensions and the economics of the elderly. The contributors report on retirement …
Immigration and the Work Force
Economic Consequences for the United States and Source Areas
Av George J. Borjas, Richard B. Freeman
Inbunden, 1992
838 kr
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Since the 1970s, the striking increase in immigration to the United States has been accompanied by a marked change in the composition of the immigrant community, with a much higher percentage of foreign-born workers coming from Latin America and Asia and a dramatically lower percentage from Europe. …
Studies of Supply and Demand in Higher Education
Av Charles T. Clotfelter, Michael Rothschild
Inbunden, 1993
723 kr
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In the United States today, there are some 3,400 separately governed colleges and universities, amounting to a higher education industry with expenditures that constitute 2.8% of the gross national product. Yet, the economic issues affecting this industry have been paid relatively little attention. …
