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We investigate competition for FDI within a region when a foreign multinational firm can profitably exploit differences in statutory corporate tax rates by shifting taxable profits to lower-tax jurisdictions. In such framework we show that targeted tax competition may lead to higher welfare for...
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This paper assesses the impact of corporate taxation on multinational activity. A numerically solvable general equilibrium model of trade and multinational firms is used to incorporate the following components of corporate taxation: parent and host country statutory corporate tax rates,...
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Despite the high growth of the Peruvian economy during the last decade, college graduates are facing increasing difficulties to find occupations that match their higher educational background, skills and educational investments. This scenario is embodied in the "professional underemployment"...
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The impact of corporate income taxes on location decisions of firms is widely debated in the tax competition literature … econometric evidence on the influence of corporate and personal income taxes on the regional distribution of firms in 1981 and … corporate and personal income taxes deter firms to locate in a canton and subsequently reduce cantonal employment. …
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I investigate how political uncertainty influences corporate investment decisions employing a unique panel dataset of German manufacturing firms. I use data on firms' self-reported investment realizations, plans and revisions. The firm-specific user cost of capital captures the current...
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This dissertation consists of six self-contained chapters that are related to the behavior of firms and politicians in a broader sense. After an introduction to the topic, the first part of the dissertation elaborates on how institutional and political framework conditions influence the behavior...
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This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy …
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This paper analyses the development of the ratio of corporate taxes to wage taxes using a simple political economy …
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derived mostly from labor productivity, and not so from lower taxes or large (potential) transfers from the European Union …
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of taxes and profitability on subsidiaries' financial choices varies across different quantiles of the (skewed … its borrowing. When however, the leverage ratio is high enough, taxes do not matter. We also find that the parent company …
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