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The Effects of Bilateral Tax Treaties on U.S. FDI Activity

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Davies, Ronald B. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2001-01-01)

The effects of bilateral tax treaties on FDI activity have been unexplored, despite significant ongoing activities by countries to negotiate and ratify these treaties. This paper estimates the impact of bilateral tax ...
Eliciting Individual-Specific Discount Rates

Cameron, Trudy Ann; Gerdes, Geoffrey R. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-01-01)

Longstanding debate over the appropriate social discount rate for public projects stems from our lack of knowledge about how individual discount rates vary across people and across choice contexts. Using a sample of roughly ...
Individual Option Prices for Climate Change Mitigation

Cameron, Trudy Ann (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-07-20)

Willingness to pay for climate change mitigation depends on people's perceptions about just how bad things will get if nothing is done. Individual subjective distributions for future climate conditions are combined with ...
A Mechanism for Inducing Cooperation in Non-Cooperative Environments: Theory and Applications

Ellis, Christopher J.; Nouweland, Anne van den (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2000-02-01)

We construct a market based mechanism that induces players in a non-cooperative game to make the same choices as characterize cooperation. We then argue that this mechanism is applicable to a wide range of economic questions ...
The OECD Model Tax Treaty: Tax Competition and Two-Way Capital

Davies, Ronald B. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2002-01-01)

Model tax treaties do not require tax rate coordination, but do call for either credits or exemptions when calculating a multinational’s domestic taxes. This contradicts recent models with a single capital exporter where ...
State Tax Competition for Foreign Direct Investment: A Winnable War?

Davies, Ronald B. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2000-05-01)

When a multinational firm invests in a country, potential host states compete for the firm by offering firm-specific tax reductions. Critics blast such incentives as a prisoner’s dilemma that transfers rents to the firm ...
Tax Competition and Foreign Capital

Davies, Ronald B.; Gresik, Thomas A. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2001-01-01)

This paper derives welfare equivalence of double taxation rules in a tax competition model with discriminatory home taxes and the ability to finance subsidiary operations with host country capital. For a more general model, ...
Tax Treaties, Renegotiations, and Foreign Direct Investment

Davies, Ronald B. (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2003-06-10)

Bilateral tax treaties are an important method of international tax cooperation. I survey the existing literature on these agreements, highlighting the differences between the standard view that treaties increase foreign ...
Technology, Agglomeration, and Regional Competition for Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Kolpin, Van (University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics, 2001-06-01)

The active "courting" of firms by municipalities, regions, and even nations has a long-standing history and the competition for firm location through a wide variety of incentives seems to have escalated to new heights in ...
Technology, Agglomeration, and Regional Competition for Investment

Blonigen, Bruce A.; Kolpin, Van (University of Oregon, Dept of Economics, 2003-09-01)

The active "courting" of firms by municipalities, regions, and even nations has a long-standing history and the competition for firm location through a wide variety of incentives seems to have escalated to new heights in ...