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- Australia to Keep Mine Investment Under Microscope
- CANBERRA (Reuters UK) - Australia signalled to foreign investors on Thursday it would continue to scrutinise investments in the mining sector, especially deals that could give investors control over pricing and production of key commodities.Treasurer Wayne Swan issued the guidance in a speech on the country's foreign investment regime, which...
- News items 2009-12-17
- Capital Xenophobia | BTalk Australia
- (15min 10) Today on BTalk Australia Phil Dobbie talks to Stephen Kirchner from the Centre for Independent Studies about his paper Capital Xenophobia 2. He says that restrictive investment regimes are holding Australia back. Although the situation has improved since the eighties, we still fall a long way behind the...
- Blog posts 2008-11-30
- Multilateral rules on FDI: do we need them? Will we get them? A developing country perspective
- This article reviews the state of play regarding the investment regime in the World Trade Organization, with the objective of contributing to the debate on policy priorities for developing countries. It concludes that substantial progress on an investment regime at the multilateral level is unlikely and perhaps undesirable. A multilateral...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Cataclysms and Currencies: Does the Exchange Rate Regime Matter for Real Shocks?
- Does the choice of exchange rate regime affect the way an economy's adjustment to real shocks? Exploiting the randomness of natural shocks, this paper assesses empirically the often contrasting answers found in the theoretical literature. The evidence supports key themes in this literature, and points to an important tradeoff between...
- White papers 2005-04-01
- AUSTRALIAN GAS PIPELINE INDUSTRY NEEDS REGIME CHANGE: INQUIRY.
- SYDNEY, Sept 19 Asia Pulse - A inquiry into Australia's $10 billion gas (US$6.6 billion) pipeline industry today heard that the design of the current regulatory regime made the system unworkable and discouraged future investment. The Australian Pipeline Industry Association APIA told a Productivity Commission hearing in Sydney...
- Research articles 2003-09-19
- ACC gives Access Regime the "thumbs up".
- Oct 16, 2003 (Oil & Gas Australia - ABIX via COMTEX) The Productivity Commission is currently conducting a review of Australia's National Gas Access Regime. In its submission to the review, the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC contended that the regime, which...
- Research articles 2003-10-22
- Revenue plans for offshore changes given some support; Industry responds positively to government consultation on shake-up of existing regime.
- By James Mawson The Inland Revenue has received support for plans to change the existing regime on offshore funds. Although the Revenue would not comment on the proposals it received during a consultation period which has now ended Fidelity Investments, the...
- Research articles 2002-08-19
- United States, Changes to the Mutual Funds Regime
- Over the past year, the booming US economy has led to an enormous influx of US investor dollars into mutual funds. This explosion in the popularity of mutual funds has been accompanied by significant changes in the way mutual funds do business. Sophisticated investors have demanded novel investment vehicles to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Productivity Growth And The Exchange Rate Regime: The Role Of Financial Development
- This paper offers empirical evidence that a country's choice of exchange rate regime can have a significant impact on its medium-term rate of productivity growth. Moreover, the impact depends critically on the country's level of financial development, its degree of market regulation, and its distance from the global technology frontier....
- White papers 2005-05-10
- FSA's regime may be limited by EC's prescriptive rules.
- There is a risk the European Commission could impose prescriptive rules on retail products, restricting the FSA's ability to implement a principles-based regime, an ABI director has said. Hugh Savill, director of public affairs at ABI, praised the approach taken by the European Commission...
- Research articles 2007-11-08
- The politics of an emergent global regime for controlling tax competition.
- This article probes what I call the emergent global regime for controlling tax competition. Since at least the early 1990s, states have perceived that competition for investment, whether through direct subsidies or tax incentives, threatens to undermine the fiscal underpinnings of the modern state, particularly in...
- Research articles 2002-06-22
- Water industry investment falls short by pounds 700m
- THE WATER regulator declared yesterday that it was not satisfied with the customer service levels at five companies, and revealed that the sector had spent pounds 700m less than promised in the last financial year. Ofwat said capital expenditure for the 12 months ended 31 March, the...
- Research articles 2001-07-31
- Partnerships, PFICs and QEFs.(passive foreign investment company, qualified electing fund)(deferral of passive investment earnings)
- Like much of the U.S. international tax regime, the passive foreign investment company PFIC provisions do not coordinate well with the subchapter K partnership rules. The qualified electing fund QEF rules and regulations offer one example of this coordination failure. Background ...
- Research articles 2005-06-01
- Increasing Trade & Investment: Policies, Institutions, And Development Assistance
- Globalization offers an unprecedented opportunity for developing countries to achieve faster economic growth through trade and investment. However, these resource flows remain concentrated among relatively few, largely middle-income developing countries. Can low-income developing countries benefit from the global economy? This paper argues that through greater openness and sound governance--reforms that...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Foreign Direct Investment and Environmental Due Diligence in Central and Eastern Europe
- Since the political changes there has been steady increase in Foreign Direct Investment into the Central and Eastern Europe. As a standard practice of property transactions within the European Union EU and USA, the investment capital companies require environmental due diligence to establish potential environmental risks associated with the transaction....
- White papers 2003-11-04
- New inv. adviser legislation brings regulatory changes. (Investment Advisers Coordination Act)(International Association for Financial Planning Convention Report)
- The federal Investment Advisers Coordination Act, which was signed into law on Oct 11, 1996, coordinates state regulations on investment advisers to create a more uniform regulatory regime. The International Association for Financial Planning was one of the financial services industry trade associations that lobbied for the new law. The...
- Research articles 1996-10-28
- Fixing the Currency: Analyzing the Implications for Property Investment Performance
- This paper analyses the historic effects of exchange rate movements on returns, risk, and diversification of office markets within the Euro zone in order to gain insights into the investment consequences of conversion to a fixed rate currency regime. The data used in the study represents annual office rental growth...
- White papers 2000-05-30
- Not Always Welcome: Regime Type and the Regulation of FDI in Postcommunist Countries
- Despite widespread enthusiasm for Foreign Direct Investment FDI as an engine for development, there are significant differences among countries' national policy frameworks governing the entry and operations of foreign-owned companies. What explains the variation in governments' choices of national policies regulating foreign investments? Building upon a combination of Bueno de...
- White papers 2006-04-07
- Foreign Direct Investment And Civil Liberties: A New Perspective
- This paper blends the political economy and the International Business FDI Foreign Direct Investment literature and examines the relationship between FDI and democracy. Even though the usual conjecture that civil and political repression boosts FDI in developing countries has been widely refuted in empirical studies, support of this view is...
- White papers 2004-08-30
- Presidential election could hike environmental liabilities.(Regime Change)
- INSURERS COULD SEE A RISE IN environmental claims if a Democratic administration or green groups push the Environmental Protection Agency to revitalize its dwindling efforts to clean up toxic waste sites, an investment-banking firm warns. Morgan S INSURERS COULD SEE A RISE IN...
- Research articles 2004-04-12
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