Merlo, Valeria; Riedel, Nadine; Wamser, Georg - In: Review of International Economics 28 (2019) 1, pp. 35-61
This paper examines how restrictions on the tax deductibility of interest cost affect location choices of multinational corporations (MNCs). Many countries have introduced so-called thin-capitalization rules (TCRs) to prevent MNCs from shifting their tax base to countries with lower tax rates....