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This paper examines the link between liquidity constraints and investment behaviour on the one hand, and firm size on … have investment functions which are more sensitive to liquidity constraints than do the larger enterprises. These results … finance. Such liquidity constraints are found to exist in Germany only since the mid-1970s, however. Apparently the German …
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firm investment. This hypothesis is tested by estimating investment equations for two groups of German manufacturing firms … external financing costs and liquidity constraints. Findings support the hypothesis of greater investment sensitivity to … liquidity constraints, as well as increased investment sensitivity over time, for the group of independent firms. …
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Germany in the EMS and is consistent with the evidence that membership has induced several countries to disinflate more than …
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both greenfield and acquisition investment, and a general constraint linking investment at home and abroad for the … investment in the greenfield case, and a cross-border cash flow tax on foreign investment in both cases. These basic results …
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and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax … rates. Intensive investment refers to the size of a firm's capital stock. Extensive investment refers to the firm …'s production location and reflects the trade-off between exports and foreign direct investment as alternative modes of foreign …
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This paper presents a model that relates a multinational firm's optimal debt policy to taxation and to non-tax factors such as the desire to prevent bankruptcy. The model yields the predictions that a multinational's indebtedness in a country depends on national tax rates and differences between...
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around 21.5% in the year 2000. The estimation suggests that a one percentage point increase in foreign ownership increases …
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Tax reform proposals in the spirit of the 'flat tax' model typically aim to reduce three parameters: the average tax burden, the progressivity of the tax schedule, and the complexity of the tax code. We explore the implications of changes in these three parameters on entrepreneurial activity,...
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This Paper analyses the interaction between corporate taxes and corporate governance. We show that the characteristics of a taxation system affect the extraction of private benefits by company insiders. A higher tax rate increases the amount of income insiders divert and thus worsens governance...
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-European profit shifting by multinationals largely at the expense of Germany. …
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