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Working Paper
Tax provisioning by extractive industry multinational subsidiaries

Extractive industries are spread across mining of metal and minerals, oil and gas, among others...

Extractive industries Tax policy uncertainty
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The asymmetric impact of economic policy uncertainty on firm-level investment in South Africa: Firm-level evidence from administrative tax data

This paper uses firm-level data and a news-based measure of economic policy uncertainty to provide empirical evidence that economic policy uncertainty has a negative impact on firm-level investment in South Africa...

Economic policy policy uncertainty Investment
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The effect of policy uncertainty on South Africa, SADC, and beyond

The principal contribution of this paper is to investigate the relationship between policy uncertainty, caused by recent developments in international markets, and firms’ trade margins for the largest economy in Africa: South Africa...

Brexit policy uncertainty Preferential trade agreements
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