This paper surveys the literature on the implications of international capital mobility for national tax policies. Our main issue for consideration in this survey is whether taxation of income, specifically capital income will survive, how border crossing investment is taxed relative to domestic...

This paper analyzes the impact of particular loss offset limitations on intrastate and crossborder investment decisions. Investment can be realized in the investor's domestic business, in a foreign branch or in a foreign subsidiary. The relative impact on the optimal real investment alternative...

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second-best efficient to deviate from Ramsey's Rule and to distort qualified labour less than nonqualified labour. The result holds for arbitrary utility and learning functions. Efficient...

The adequate pricing of intellectual property ("IP") for tax reporting is a largely unsettled issue. Transactional profit-based methods are on the rise although only rated as "methods of last resort" by the OECD. This paper focuses on regulated profit splitting and compares this transfer pricing...

In this study, we analyze the cyclicality of fiscal policies in China during the period 1978-2013. We find that the cyclicality of local government spending in China significantly affects the cyclicality of total government spending. By employing both time-series and province-level panel data,...