Laeven, Luc; Huizinga, Harry; Nicodeme, Gaetan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper presents a model of a multinational firm's optimal debt policy that incorporates international taxation … multinationals have an incentive to shift debt to high-tax countries. The predictions of the model are tested using a novel firm … treatment of dividend and interest streams. Our empirical results show that corporate debt policy indeed not only reflects …