In many industries like management consulting, IT consulting, or construction highly qualified employees, i.e., experts or executive managers, have to be assigned to temporary projects. In firms with many employees and various different projects, this assignment decision involves a complex...

Mit der österreichischen Steuerreform 2005 wurde die Möglichkeit der grenzüberschreitenden Verlustverrechnung im Rahmen der Gruppenbesteuerung eröþnet. Die vorliegende Arbeit untersucht den simultanen Einfluss von Gruppenbesteuerung und Verlustverrechnungsbeschränkungen auf das...

Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden die Entscheidungswirkungen der deutschen Abschnittsbesteuerung auf die optimale Repatriierung multinationaler Unternehmen untersucht. Anhand des Beispiels einer inländischen Einzelunternehmung, die eine Finanzanlage oder eine Realinvestition entweder in einer...

Multinational groups (MNGs) produce a major part of global output. Further, a substantial fraction of international transactions happens to be internal, i.e., intermediate products and services are traded between group members. Thus, the problem of co-ordinating economic decisions like...

This paper analyzes the impact of taxation on the location of patents within multinational groups. Based on groups with parents from 36 countries globally and their patent holdings in 36 European countries, we provide insight into the determinants of three subsequent decisions: (1) the decision...

This paper analyzes the impact of countries' tax attractiveness on the allocation of risk within multinational groups. Our dataset contains subsidiaries located in 32 European countries and owned by parents from 90 different countries globally. We show that tax symmetry positively influences the...