Corporate taxation, debt financing and foreign-plant ownership
This paper compares domestically and foreign-owned plants with respect to their debt-to-assets ratio and analyzes to which extent the difference is systematically affected by corporate taxation. To derive hypotheses about influence of corporate taxation on a firm's debt financing we adapt a standard model of taxation and financing decisions of firms for the case of international debt shifting activities of foreign-owned firms. We estimate the average difference between a foreign-owned and a domestically owned firm's debt ratio, treating the mode of ownership as endogenous. Using data from 32,067 European firms, we find that foreign-owned firms on average exhibit a significantly higher debt ratio than their domestically owned counterparts in the host country. Moreover, this gap in the debt ratio increases with the host country's statutory corporate tax rate.
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2010
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Authors: | Egger, Peter ; Eggert, Wolfgang ; Keuschnigg, Christian ; Winner, Hannes |
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European Economic Review. - Elsevier, ISSN 0014-2921. - Vol. 54.2010, 1, p. 96-107
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Publisher: |
Elsevier |
Keywords: | Corporate taxation Multinational firms Financial structure Debt shifting Propensity score matching |
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