The paper evaluates the working of German CFC rules that restrict the use of foreign subsidiaries located in low-tax countries to shelter passive investment income from home taxation. While passive investments make up a significant fraction of German outbound FDI, we find that German CFC rules...

Sofern Steuersysteme nicht vollständig entscheidungsneutral ausgestaltet sind, beeinflussen Steuern die Vorteilhaftigkeit verschiedener Handlungsalternativen und damit die Entscheidungen und das Verhalten der Steuerpflichtigen. Das Wissen über Verhaltenswirkungen von Steuern ist Voraussetzung...

This paper explores the effects of tax provisions aimed at restricting multinationals' tax planning on foreign direct investment (FDI). Using a unique dataset which allows us to observe the worldwide activities of a large panel of multinational firms, we test how limitations of interest tax...

We provide indirect empirical evidence of profit shifting behavior by multinational enterprises. This issue is analyzed in an econometric panel study for the years 1995 to 2005 and additionally in a cross-section for 2004 using a large micro database of European subsidiaries of multinationals...