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Can Time-Varying Currency Risk Hedging Explain Exchange Rates?
Bräuer, Leonie; Hau, Harald - 2022
bond positions, which creates a net hedging demand for dollar assets that depreciates USD rates in both the forward and … spot markets. We document the time-varying nature of this net hedging demand and show how it relates to eco … FX hedging pressure can account for approximately 30% of all monthly variation in the seven most important dollar …
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On the Capital Structure of Foreign Subsidiaries : Evidence from a Panel Data Quantile Regression Model
Miniaci, Raffaele; Panteghini, Paolo - 2021
This paper studies how variations in tax rates and profitability affect the (unconditional) quantiles of the distribution of the leverage of European foreign owned subsidiaries in the presence of unobserved company characteristics, possibly correlated with their observable dimensions. To achieve...
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Firms' financial choices and thin capitalization rules under corporate tax competition
Haufler, Andreas; Runkel, Marco - 2008
Thin capitalization rules have become an important element in the corporate tax systems of developed countries. This paper sets up a model where national and multinational firms choose tax-efficient financial structures and countries compete for multinational firms through statutory tax rates...
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The Role of Human Capital in Structural Change and Growth in an Open Economy : Innovative and Absorptive Capacity Effects
Bye, Brita; Faehn, Taran - 2021
Since the financial crisis in 2008, slow growth has riddled Europe and the Covid-19 pandemic is amplifying the challenge. Promoting economic growth and transforming to a more knowledge-based industrial structure will be high on the agenda for the coming decades. We study how more and better...
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Risk Pooling, Leverage, and the Business Cycle
Dindo, Pietro - 2020
This paper studies the impact of financial sector size and leverage on the business cycle and risk-free rates dynamics. We develop a general equilibrium model of a productive economy where financial intermediaries provide costly risk mitigation to households by pooling the idiosyncratic risks of...
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Profit shifting by debt financing in Europe
Barion, Francesca; Miniaci, Raffaele; Panteghini, Paolo M. - 2010
This article aims at analyzing the link between subsidiaries' capital structure and taxation in Europe. First we introduce a trade-off model, which studies a MNCs' financial strategy and shows how debt policy allows multinational groups to shift profits from low-tax to high-tax jurisdictions. By...
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International debt shifting: Do multinationals shift internal or external debt?
Møen, Jarle; Schindler, Dirk; Schjelderup, Guttorm; … - 2011
Multinational companies can exploit the tax advantage of debt more aggressively than national companies by shifting debt from affiliates in low tax countries to affiliates in high tax countries. Previous papers have either omitted internal debt or external debt from the analysis. We are the...
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The Structure of Multinational Firms' International Activities
Davies, Ronald B. - 2020
The structure of a multinational firm, that is how its affiliates relate to one another, is critical for understanding where multinationals locate, how policy affects them, and their resilience to localized shocks. Here, we review the two main structures: horizontal investments which replicate...
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Lifestyle Taxes in the Presence of Profit Shifting
Levaggi, Rosella - 2020
Non-communicable diseases (NCDs) cause about 71% of all deaths globally and a considerable increase in health care costs. To tackle this problem, several Governments have designed "sin taxes", i.e, extra payments related to the quantity of unhealthy contents of specific goods. However, unhealthy...
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Substitution Across Profit-Shifting Methods and the Impact on Thin Capitalization Rules
Eggert, Wolfgang - 2020
Thin capitalization rules limit firms' ability to deduct internal interest payments from taxable income, thereby restricting debt shifting activities of multinational firms. Since multinational firms can limit their tax liability in several ways, regulation of debt shifting may have an impact on...
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