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foreign investments in a high-tax country is positively affected by lower foreign taxation of shifted profits. …This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals? real investments in a high-tax country is affected by … advantage, the respective size of investments should theoretically increase if profits can be shifted to a lower taxing country …
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This paper reviews the recent literature on the relocation of headquarters (HQs). Overall results show that full and direct international relocations of corporate HQs are rare events. However, there is a trend that MNEs increasingly unbundle their HQs so as to spread their different HQs...
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This article aims at analyzing the link between subsidiaries' capital structure and taxation in Europe. First we …
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the taxation of multinational firms: (i) the spread of tax measures that provide discriminatory tax relief to … analyses, we briefly survey some of the empirical evidence on both the general development of corporate taxation in Europe and …
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From a CAPM-type model the cost of equity is derived for a firm operating under various foreign tax systems. The firm’s shares are traded in a market which is unaffected by these systems. The cost of capital depends on the foreign tax system, even for fully equity financed projects. This is...
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This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals’ real investments ina high-tax country is affected by profit … respective size of investments should theoretically increase if profitscan be shifted to a lower taxing country. An empirical … analysis, based on a panel of Germaninbound investments, confirms a positive tax response of real investments with a …
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This paper examines the impact of thin capitalization rules that limit the tax deductibility of interest on the capital structure of the foreign affiliates of US multinationals. We construct a new data set on thin capitalization rules in 54 countries for the period 1982-2004. Using confidential...
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In this study we explore how a firm-level dividend tax on redistributed foreign profits affects the financial decisions of a multinational enterprise (MNE). We examine this by using evidence from a recent tax reform in Finland. The so-called equalization tax (EQT) used to be a regular element of...
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the taxation of multinational firms: (i) the spread of tax measures that provide discriminatory tax relief to … analyses, we briefly survey some of the empirical evidence on both the general development of corporate taxation in Europe and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003368133
The paper examines how country tax differences affect a multinational enterprise's choice to centralize or de-centralize its decision structure. Within a simple model that emphasizes the multiple conflicting roles of transfer prices in MNEs - here, as a strategic pre-commitment device and a tax...
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