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Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on …, possibly reflecting its international discriminatory nature. For the cross-section of multinational firms, we find that parent …
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In this study, we estimate the impacts of differences in international tax rates on the probability of choosing a …
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In oligopolistic industries, increased cost saving opportunities via offshoring have a moderating effect on trade unions. In order to discourage mobile firms from leaving the country, unions accept lower sector wages. In effect, the negotiated wage becomes independent of workers' bargaining...
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-financial multinationals. The paper builds on the literature on international banks which has primarily focused on the implications for host … countries, rather than for its international clients, and on the literature on foreign direct investment (FDI), which emphasizes … of a major international bank to third-country counter parties during the recent crisis may thus result in persistently …
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Foreign direct investment (FDI) in services has grown significantly in recent years. Evidence of spatial relationships in FDI decisions have been provided for goods manufacturing by utilizing physical distance-based measures of trade costs. This paper investigates spatial interactions for...
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We provide an empirical analysis of host country determinants of Chinese outward FDI for the period 2003 to 2008, using data disaggregated by country and industry. We want to assess the relevance of market-seeking, resource-seeking and strategic asset seeking motivations suggested by the theory...
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Multinational enterprises are often accused to have a preference for investing in countries in which the working populations' civil and political rights are largely disregarded. This paper presents an empirical investigation of the popular political repression boosts FDI hypothesis and arrives...
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This paper proposes and evaluates alternative methods for addressing the tax treatment of interest expenses in a multijurisdictional setting. The differential deductibility of debt entailed by various current tax law provisions leads to potential distortions in the patterns of asset ownership...
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