This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we … investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and , as a result, investment. We find a sizable negative effect … of public spending -- and in particular of its public wage component -- on business investment. This result is consistent …

equilibrium, affiliates might over-invest and the bunching-related investment effects generate a tendency for too high profit … profit. Setting up a model that allows for profitable and loss-making affiliates of multinationals, we show that profit …-tax country induces bunching. Such bunching promotes investment incentives in the low-tax as well as the high-tax country. In …

This paper evaluates the effects of fiscal policy on investment using a panel of OECD countries. In particular, we … investigate how different types of fiscal policy affect profits and , as a result, investment. We find a sizable negative effect … of public spending -- and in particular of its public wage component -- on business investment. This result is consistent …