Developing VAT treaties: international tax cooperation in times of global recovery

Meeting Global Challenges Through International Science And Technology Cooperation - A Glance At United Nations' Multilateral Treaties

The paper focuses on United Nations‘ multilateral treaties adopted for the purpose of international cooperation in science and technology (S&T) to provide a detailed and up-close grainy picture of how the world cooperates to address a vast area of global issues. On one hand, the paper measures the degree of global joint-commitment by the international community for major S&T agreements. On the ...

International Treaties on Global Pollution: a Dynamic Time-path Analysis

In this paper we show that the formation of coalitions by subsets of countries might diminish the likelihood of a successful worldwide treaty on global pollution. Non-member countries may be less willing to sign a world-wide treaty than they would be in the absence of such coalitions. In fact, the coalition formation may raise the reservation utility of non-member countries above the world-wide...

Bilateral Tax Treaties and GDP Comovement

Using a 30-year panel of quarterly GDP fluctuations from of a broad set of countries, we demonstrate that the signing of a bilateral tax treaty increases the comovement of treaty partners’ business cycles by 1/2 a standard deviation. This effect of fiscal policy is as large as the effect of trade linkages on comovement, and stronger than the effects of several other common financial and investm...

Double Tax Treaties and Their Interpretation

Effect of Global Financial Crisis on International Trade in Developed and Developing Countries

The recent global crisis, as a big crash ( Baldwin and Simon , 2009), has reduced foreign demand growth affecting total countries’ exports. Given the importance of foreign trade to nations and the reality that recent crisis has affected international trade we study the effects of the global financial crisis on trade relations between countries by using Ma and Cheng (2003) approach and by appl...