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The Use of Tax Havens in Exemption Regimes

Gumpert, Anna - 2011

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...

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Corporate Taxes and Internal Borrowing within Multinational Firms

Egger, Peter H. - 2012

This paper develops a theoretical model of multinational firms with an internal capital market. Main reasons for the emergence of such a market are tax avoidance through debt shifting and the existence of institutional weaknesses and financial frictions across host countries. The model serves to...

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International Business Travel : An Engine of Innovation?

Hovhannisyan, Nune - 2014

While it is well known that managers prefer in-person meetings for negotiating deals and selling their products, face-to-face communication may be particularly important for the transfer of technology because technology is best explained and demonstrated in person. This paper studies the role of...

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Global Production with Export Platforms

Tintelnot, Felix - 2016

Most international commerce is carried out by multinational firms, which use their foreign affiliates both to serve the market of the host country and to export to other markets outside the host country. In this paper, I examine the determinants of multinational firms' location and production...

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Internationalized Production in World Output

Lipsey, Robert E.; Blomstrom, Magnus; Ramstetter, Eric D. - 2021

Internationalized production, that is, production by multinational firms outside their home countries has increased over the last two decades, but it was still, in 1990, only about 7 percent of world output. The share was higher, at 15 percent in 'industry,' including manufacturing, trade,...

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Margins of Multinational Labor Substitution

Muendler, Marc-Andreas; Becker, Sascha O. - 2021

Employment at multinational enterprises (MNEs) responds to wages at the extensive margin, when an MNE enters a foreign location, and at the intensive margin, when an MNE operates existing affiliates. We present an MNE model and conditions for parametric and nonparametric identification. Prior...

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Why Work More? The Impact of Taxes, and Culture of Leisure on Labor Supply in Europe

Mocan, Naci H. - 2015

We use micro data from the European Social Survey to investigate the impact of “culture of leisure” and taxes on labor force participation and hours worked of second-generation immigrants who reside in 26 European countries. These individuals are born in Europe, and they have been exposed to...

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Terrorist Attacks, Cultural Incidents and the Vote for Radical Parties : Analyzing Text from Twitter

Giavazzi, Francesco; Iglhaut, Felix; Lemoli, Giacomo; … - 2022

We study the role of perceived threats from other cultures induced by terrorist attacks and by a criminal event on public discourse and voters’ support for radical right parties. We first develop a rule which allocates Twitter users in Germany to electoral districts and then use a machine...

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Does Management Matter in Schools

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

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Measuring and Explaining Management Practices Across Firms and Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium sized manufacturing firms in the …-level productivity, profitability, Tobin%u2019s Q, sales growth and survival rates. Management practices also display significant cross … tail of extremely badly managed firms. We find that poor management practices are more prevalent when (a) product market …

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