Forward looking measures like the well-known effective marginal tax rate developed by King and Fullerton (1984) are often criticized for not taking into account the complexity of the tax law. This paper derives a method of evaluating this kind of measure and of quantifying the bias resulting...

Instruments of risk mitigation play an important role in managing country risk within the foreign direct investment (FDI) decision. Our study assesses country risk by state-dependent preferences and introduces futures contracts as a tool of risk mitigation. We show that country risk assessments...

Wir untersuchen für ein internationales Unternehmen das Zusammenwirken von finanz- und realwirtschaftlichem Risikomanagement. Dies geschieht auf der Grundlage eines intertemporalen, stochastischen Entscheidungsmodells. Die gemeinsame Betrachtung von Devisen-Futures und Lagerhaltung bestätigt...

Recent empirical studies find that foreign direct investment (FDI) by a multinational firm is not associated with a reduction of the firm's domestic activities. As it is often argued, this finding may imply that a country should not tax the firm's foreign profit income since this reduces foreign...