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effect of profit taxation (as a measure of investment incentives) and an index of hiring and firing costs (proxying exit … manufacturing is negatively affected by the level of profit taxation and exit costs. Hence, if countries want to attract FDI it may …
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This paper examines the microeconomic motivation of governments to provide tax incentives for foreign direct investment. Author applies the classical models of oligopoly to subsidy competition, endogenousing investment incentives, but leaving tax rates exogenous. According to the conventional...
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The paper investigates the role of holding companies and conduit entities in German inbound and outbound FDI. It identifies the relevant conduit countries that act as stepping stones. Several tax and non-tax factors for the set-up of indirect structures are empirically identified. Withholding...
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the relocation of headquarters (HQs). Overall results show that full and direct international relocations of corporate HQs are rare events. However, there is a trend that MNEs increasingly unbundle their HQs so as to spread their different HQs...
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This paper computes effective (marginal and average) tax rates that account for bilateral aspects of taxation and …, therefore, vary across country-pairs and years. These tax rates serve to estimate the impact of corporate taxation on outbound …-pair and time variant) effective tax rates leads to biased estimates of the impact of corporate taxation on FDI. …
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This paper analyses the impact of tax sparing agreements on Japanese foreign direct investment (FDI) distribution in developing countries. These agreements are sometimes concluded between a developed country and a developing country which grants fiscal incentives to foreign investors. In that...
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A national authority wishes to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) to create local jobs. We analyse the optimal national trade policy when local authorities might offer subsidies to convince a multi-national enterprise (MNE) to invest in their jurisdiction. With centralised decision-making...
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This paper analyzes tax competition for foreign direct investment with country risk using a two-country model with different market sizes. We show that the trade-off between country size as a locational advantage and country risk as a locational disadvantage affects the location choice of a...
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This paper measures the relative importance of quality and quantity effects of corporate taxation on foreign direct … of production. Depending on the sign of the quality effects, the detrimental welfare effects of corporate taxation are …
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without taxation. Exploiting exogenous variation in labor cost differentials induced by the breakdown of communism in eastern …
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