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Switching from Worldwide to Territorial Taxation : Empirical Evidence of FDI Effects
Buettner, Thiess - 2019
the importance of the actual tax rate. For Japan, which charges a higher tax rate on corporate profits than Germany, we … find a substantial increase of FDI in Germany after the switch from worldwide to territorial taxation. For the UK, which … imposes a lower tax rate than Germany, the switch to territorial taxation is not found to exert any significant effects on …
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Global Value Chains, Trade Shocks and Jobs : An Application to Brexit
Vandenbussche, Hylke - 2019
We develop a network trade model with country-sector level input-output linkages. It includes (1) domestic and global value chain linkages between all country-sectors, (2) direct as well as indirect shipments (via other sectors and countries) to a final destination, (3) value added rather than...
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Saving taxes through foreign plant ownership
Egger, Peter; Eggert, Wolfgang; Winner, Hannes - 2007
This paper analyzes to which extent foreign plant ownership involves lower tax payments than domestic plant ownership. We employ a model of endogenous foreign subsidiary ownership to derive a set of empirically testable hypotheses about the differential taxation of foreign- and...
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Tax competition with formula apportionment: the interaction between tax base and sharing mechanism
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - 2007
The EU Commission is advocating a common consolidated tax base for the corporate income tax, accompanied by a revenue sharing mechanism based on formula apportionment. We analyse tax competition in such a regime, focussing on the interaction between the definition of the tax base and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264209
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Incorporation and taxation : theory and firm-level evidence
Egger, Peter; Keuschnigg, Christian; Winner, Hannes - 2009
This paper provides a theory and firm-level evidence on the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs in a model of taxes and corporate governance. The theory explains how the incorporation decision of entrepreneurs is driven by taxation (corporate and personal income taxes), corporate...
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The spatial organization of multinational firms
Defever, Fabrice - 2010
Using six years of firm-level data covering 224 regions of the enlarged European Union, we evaluate the importance to a firm of locating its activities (production, headquarters, R&D, logistics and sales) close together. We find that, after controlling for regional characteristics, being closely...
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The Economic Effects of Brexit - Evidence from the Stock Market
Breinlich, Holger - 2018
We study stock market reactions to the Brexit referendum on 23 June 2016 in order to assess investors’ expectations about the effects of leaving the European Union on the UK economy. Our results suggest that initial stock price movements were driven by fears of a cyclical downturn and by the...
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Tax Competition with Formula Apportionment : The Interaction between Tax Base and Sharing Mechanism
Kolmar, Martin; Wagener, Andreas - 2021
The EU Commission is advocating a common consolidated tax base for the corporate income tax, accompanied by a revenue sharing mechanism based on formula apportionment. We analyse tax competition in such a regime, focussing on the interaction between the definition of the tax base and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013316828
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A Tale of (Almost) 1001 Coefficients : Deep and Heterogeneous Effects of the Eu-Turkey Customs Union
Larch, Mario - 2019
In view of the deferred start of negotiations for the modernization of the Customs Union between the EU and Turkey (CU-EUT), we look back and analyse the ex post trade consequences of the CU-EUT. Employing up-to-date econometric best practices for regional integration agreements, we quantify...
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What Do We Really Know About the Transatlantic Current Account?
Braml, Martin - 2019
Do the U.S. have a current account surplus or a deficit with the EU? Since 2009, official sources disagree: The U.S. Department of Commerce claims a consistent U.S. surplus while Eurostat reports the opposite. International transactions are notoriously difficult to measure accurately, but the...
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