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Replication Data for: External enablers of the Eurozone's austerity bias _ AUG 2020
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Replication Data for "Jobs and Fiction. Identifying the Effect of Corporate Tax Avoidance Inflating Export Measures in Ireland"
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Replication Data for: Silent Losers of Export Surpluses
No full textGermany’s excessive current account surpluses mirror domestic problems. They are rooted in inequality and a weak home market, creating an overdependence on exports. Why, then, are policymakers so reluctant to reduce them? This paper argues that a contributing factor is the public misrepresentation of surpluses’ domestic costs. Imbalances are narrated as distributional conflicts between countries, not within them; and bilateral trade is framed as a competition, where surplus countries win. The analysis reconstructs stakeholders’ positions and discursive strategies through media narratives and Bundestag debates, using an original dataset of public statements. It finds evidence for a systematic bias disregarding the domestic losers of surpluses. Whenever imbalances are discussed, the triggering event is outside criticism, mainly from the European Commission and the United States. The ensuing debate follows an ‘us versus them’ logic, where foreign critics clash with domestic defenders – mainly the government and export-sector organizations. The success narrative and identitarian discourse about an ‘export nation’ limits left-wing actors’ room to move beyond incremental criticism. The analysis finds an effect of European integration exacerbating imbalances. Germans fend off critics by an arena-shifting strategy: pointing out that exchange rates and trade are European-level prerogatives, disregarding internal policy levers for rebalancing
Replication Data for: Foundering on fallacies: theorizing the Eurozone’s self-harming mercantilism
No full textThe Eurozone’s export-oriented policy regime and pursuit of trade surpluses remains thoroughly puzzling. Rooted in overly strict fiscal policies, inequality and underinvestment; undermining growth and contributing to trade tensions‒ it defies economic self-interest. This paper develops an analytical framework and research agenda to confront this puzzle. It argues that these policies are self-harming, but are nonetheless pursued, because of three fallacies that obscure the cost-benefit calculus attached to them. These fallacies are rooted in the empirical problem of observational equivalence: the same observed surplus can be driven by different underlying processes, and its net benefit will depend on our assumptions about these drivers. The first fallacy is mistaking external enablers for domestic competitiveness— interpreting export success to be linked to domestic reform, while it was largely explained by better links to faster growing trading partners. The second fallacy is mistaking weak imports for strong exports— interpreting surpluses as ‘winning,’ even when they are not driven by superior exports, but sluggish imports. The third fallacy is mismeasuring multinational firms’ contributions to national exports— interpreting profit shifting and assets stashed in low tax jurisdictions as export performance. Germany and Ireland, paradigmatic ‘success cases of austerity’ are used to expand the argument
Replication Data for: Jobs and Fiction: Identifying the Effect of Corporate Tax Avoidance Inflating Export Measures in Ireland
No full textReplication Data for: Jobs and Fiction: Identifying the Effect of Corporate Tax Avoidance Inflating Export Measures in Irelan
Replication Data for: Jobs and Fiction. Identifying the effect of corporate tax avoidance inflating export measures in Ireland
No full textReplication Data for: Jobs and Fiction. Identifying the effect of corporate tax avoidance inflating export measures in Irelan
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Get PDFThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Get PDF“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
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