Die vorliegende Arbeit wurde von Andrea Gebauer in weiten Teilen während ihrer Tätigkeit als Wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin am ifo Institut erstellt und im September 2007 abgeschlossen. Gegenstand der Arbeit ist die seit 2001 festzustellende schwache Entwicklung der deutschen...

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...

Using aggregate data on U.S. multinational firms' activities, we document the impact of tax havens on the organization and trade of multinational firms. Conventional wisdom says that MNEs set up foreign sales platforms close to large markets to benefit from the proximity to consumers. We show,...

In the course of the “Panama Papers” discussion, questions arise concerning the fiscal effects of international profit shifting and tax avoidance. A recent OECD study estimates the worldwide corporate tax losses to lie between 4 and 10 percent of the revenues. Applied to Germany, this would...

This paper is the first to use information from individual country-by-country (CbC) re-ports to assess the extent of profit shifting by multinational enterprises. Unlike other data often used to evaluate the extent of profit shifting and tax avoidance, CbC reports pro-vide a complete coverage of...