This paper provides a theory on staged or step-by-step privatization. We show that such an approach can be efficient, in the sense that it can successfully transform a state-owned enterprise into an efficient market-based firm by the time when the reform is complete. It may explain the...

This paper analyzes the optimal level of transfer pricing manipulation when the expected tax penalty is a function of the tax enforcement and the market price parameter, and the multinational enterprise is subjected to distinct rules of foreign profit taxation. The application of the arm's...

The article reflects on the taxation of the digitalized economy and the recent proposals by some authors and the EU Commission to suggest that other options are available that will create less distortions and close the loopholes left after BEPS

Almost 140 countries have agreed to reallocate the rights to tax international corporate profits and to introduce minimum tax rates. The agreed plan is the product of pragmatism and a search for consensus, but ambitious. It includes steps towards unitary taxation to be established by a...