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In this paper, I investigate the influence of tax incentives on the financial structures of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) conducted by multinational entities (MNE). Previous research has already found evidence for tax avoidance by debt shifting. I analyze the importance of locating debt at...
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corresponds to that of Germany. The impact of taxation on investments is negative. A ten percentage points higher corporate tax … are applied for tax efficient group structuring. -- Corporate Taxation ; Foreign Direct Investment ; Empirical Analysis …
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elasticity of investments for companies shielded by existing losses. -- Corporate Taxation ; Loss Treatment ; Group Taxation …
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Repatriation taxes reduce the competitiveness of multinational firms from tax credit countries when bidding for targets in low tax countries. This comparative disadvantage with respect to bidders from exemption countries violates ownership neutrality, which results in production inefficiencies...
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We investigate real investment, financial revenues and profits in formerly domestic firms once they enter a multinational entity (MNE) through an acquisition. We argue that following the acquisition, those targets are tax-optimized in a profit shifting context if they are acquired by MNEs with...
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We show that corporate taxation systems regarding foreign dividends and capital gains across 49 countries differ in … distorted. Consequently, a national tax policy maker may ask which taxation system improves the position of its multinational … dividends and capital gains taxation on cross-border M&A prices from the acquirer’s perspective and theoretically compare …
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effect for these companies as well. -- Capital Structure ; Corporate Taxation ; Interest Barrier ; Empirical Analysis ; Firm …
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vertical company structure, I provide evidence of a horizontal driver: once a form of group taxation is available, groups seem … to spread their national investments across more subsidiaries. -- Corporate Taxation ; Foreign Direct Investment …
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This paper analyzes externalities of patent box regimes in Europe. Tax reductions in foreign affiliates of a firm that also provide a profit shifting opportunity reduce the user cost of capital and thereby increase domestic investment. We test this mechanism for the case of research activity. By...
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We investigate the effect of international differences in corporate taxation on the realization of productivity gains … firms can use international profit shifting to attenuate effective differences in taxation. In a complementary analysis, we …
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