Jack Mintz, University of Calgary, gibt einen Überblick über die Auswirkungen der US-amerikanischen Steuerreform und zeigt, dass sowohl die Investitionen als auch die Finanzierung von US-amerikanischen und ausländischen Unternehmen davon beeinflusst werden.

This paper examines the future of capital income taxation in a world of capital mobility. It first explores the motivation for personal and corporate income taxation in an open economy and argues that policymakers should view these taxes as having quite different impacts on the economy. The...

The paper analyzes the financial structure of outbound FDI during the period 1996-2002 by drawing on up to 54,022 firm-year observations of 13,758 German-owned subsidiaries. We find that the tax rate in the host country has a sizeable and significantly positive effect on leverage for...