This paper compares dynamic relationship between economic growth and corporate tax rate during the recent financial crisis and the non-crisis period using a panel VAR for 29 OECD countries over the period 1998-2016. The results show that corporate tax rate has a significantly negative effect on...

Legal conflicts between multinational firms and host governments are often decided by international arbitration panels - as opposed to courts in the host country - due to provisions in international investment agreements known as Investor State Dispute Settlements (ISDS). Critics fear that ISDS...

In recent years, there is a growing tendency in international taxation to move the right to tax the corporate income of multinational enterprises to the jurisdiction where their customer base is located. One widely discussed proposal applies a sales-only formula to group-wide profits of...

The exceptional export performance of foreign-owned firms is a well-established stylized fact, but the underlying mechanism is not yet fully understood. In this paper, we provide theory and empirical evidence demonstrating that this fact can be explained by ownership differences in access to...

Noticing the visible hand of state capitalism in global production and value chain system, this study examines the outward foreign direct investment strategy of sovereign wealth funds (SWFs). Leveraging theoretical insights from the conventional political economy and international business...

Durante la crisis económica actual en el conjunto de países desarrollados se ha visto un alejamiento de flujos de la inversión extranjera directa (IED), mientras que en el conjunto de países en desarrollo y en transición, se ha registrado un aumento. En este escenario y a lo largo de los...

The authors investigate a puzzling decline in US firm antidumping (AD) filings in an era of persistent foreign currency undervaluations and increasing import competition. Firms exhibit heterogeneity both within and across industries regarding foreign direct investment (FDI). Firms making...