German multinationals’ direct investments abroad and of foreign multinationals’ investments in Germany from 1996 till 2008. A … corresponds to that of Germany. The impact of taxation on investments is negative. A ten percentage points higher corporate tax …

for multinationals exceeding a certain revenue threshold. We show that 82% of the German multinationals subject to CbC …, only 9% of the global profits of German multinationals are reported in tax havens. Results from regression analysis suggest … annual tax base loss for Germany amounts to EUR 5.4 billion. Adding estimates of profit shifting by multinationals not …

M&A investments. Based on a novel firm-level dataset on German outbound FDI, we find evidence that location decisions of … finding is consistent with a (partial) capitalisation of taxes in the acquisition price when the FDI project takes the form of … M&A. -- FDI ; corporate taxation ; location ; M&A ; Greenfield …

. Using information on nearly all new foreign investments of German MNCs, we provide a number of new and interesting insights …