Striking development in travel services (including tourism): the euro area’s surplus declined from €40 billion to €12 billion amid the COVID-19 pandemic (on annual basis). The largest decline was recorded vis-à-vis the United Kingdom.
Just released: euro area BoP for 2020Q2. Smaller current account surpluses vis-à-vis the United Kingdom and the United States; larger deficit with China (on annual basis). Net international investment position balanced.
https://t.co/ux6fgJtfy9
Un articolo sul @sole24ore con il mio brillante studente e co-autore @AntonioCoppolaC sulla nostra ricerca sui paradisi fiscali a @GCAProject. Come i paradisi fiscali mascherano le esposizioni finanziarie globali.
https://t.co/cMjnNZywni
The activities of global firms pose a challenge for recording cross-border statistics, shows our #EconomicBulletin. Policies at the international level – like the @OECD and #g20 initiatives – are key to improving transparency and tackling #tax avoidance https://t.co/1j6KX2nlyc
The problem with the debate on inequality is that many simply refuse to look at the data or understand their limitations. They treat it as an act of faith.This is troubling because it really matters for policy which inequalities are rising and by how much. https://t.co/n7045Mp0Fe
(1/7) I'm working on a detailed response that I will post soon, but there are many issues here, some of which are quite technical. Double counting (in some BEA data) was known by me and others and was corrected for/dealt with in more recent papers.
I hope the term "phantom" FDI catches on.
Captures a world where 1/2 of U.S. is now in a low tax jurisdiction. And most U.S. FDI abroad is in "holdcos"
https://t.co/f99suIwmxL
🆕"L’évitement fiscal des multinationales en France: combien et où?" par @VVicard
Les profits des #multinationales non déclarés en France auraient représenté quelque 36Md€ en 2015, soit 1,6% du PIB.
https://t.co/7TeBhz3QFV
#impôts#fiscalité#GAFA
Great read on Zucman’s work on personal inequality. The Wealth Detective Who Finds the Hidden Money of the Super Rich - Bloomberg https://t.co/kxjPKzWS5r