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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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Cross-Country Comparisons of Corporate Income Taxes
Markle, Kevin - 2011
difference between the ETRs of multinationals and domestic-only firms. Besides enhancing our knowledge about international taxes …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129120
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To Join or Not to Join? Factors Influencing Employee Share Plan Membership in a Multinational Corporation
Bryson, Alex - 2010
Many firms encourage employees to own company stock through share plans that subsidize the price at favorable rates, but even so many employees do not buy shares. Using a new survey of employees in a multinational with a share ownership plan, we find considerable variation in joining among...
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Innovation and Diffusion of Clean/Green Technology : Can Patent Commons Help?
Hall, Bronwyn H. - 2012
This paper explores the characteristics of 238 patents on 94 "inventions" contributed by major multinational innovators to the "Eco-Patent Commons", which provides royalty-free access to third parties to patented climate change related innovations. By comparing the pledged patents to other...
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The Organization of Firms Across Countries
Bloom, Nicholas - 2012
We argue that social capital as proxied by regional trust and the Rule of Law can improve aggregate productivity through facilitating greater firm decentralization. We collect original data on the decentralization of investment, hiring, production and sales decisions from Corporate Head Quarters...
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The Empirics of Firm Heterogeneity and International Trade
Bernard, Andrew B. - 2011
This paper reviews the empirical evidence on firm heterogeneity in international trade. A first wave of empirical … findings from micro data on plants and firms proposed challenges for existing models of international trade and inspired the …
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Grossman-Hart (1986) Goes Global : Incomplete Contracts, Property Rights, and the International Organization of Production
Antras, Pol - 2011
I survey the influence of Grossman and Hart's (1986) seminal paper in the field of International Trade. I discuss the … implementation of the theory in open-economy environments and its implications for the international organization of production and … the structure of international trade flows. I also review empirical work suggestive of the empirical relevance of the …
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Surviving the Global Financial Crisis : Foreign Ownership and Establishment Performance
Alfaro, Laura - 2011
subsidiaries around the world responded to the crisis relative to local establishments. We find that, first, multinational …
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Selection and Market Reallocation : Productivity Gains from Multinational Production
Alfaro, Laura - 2012
Assessing the productivity gains from multinational production has been a vital topic of economic research. Positive aggregate productivity gains are often attributed to within-firm productivity improvement; however, an alternative, less emphasized explanation is between-firm selection and...
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Quantifying Productivity Gains from Foreign Investment
Fons-Rosen, Christian - 2013
We revisit the relationship between foreign investment and productivity of acquired firms. First, we construct a panel firm-level dataset for eight advanced European countries covering domestic and foreign acquisitions together with detailed balance sheet information for the years 1999{2012....
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