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This paper argues that the large reduction in corporate tax rates and only gradual widening of tax bases in many countries over the last decades are consistent with tougher international competition for foreign direct investment (FDI). To make this point we develop a model in which governments...
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Repatriation taxes reduce the competitiveness of multinational firms from tax credit countries when bidding for targets in low tax countries. This comparative disadvantage with respect to bidders from exemption countries violates ownership neutrality, which results in production inefficiencies...
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This paper examines empirically how international taxation affects the volume and pricing of cross-border banking … activities for a sample of banks in 38 countries over the 1998-2008 - period. Home country corporate income taxation of foreign …-source bank income is found to reduce banking-sector FDI. Furthermore, such taxation is almost fully passed on into higher …
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"behavioral responses to taxation" can illuminate current debates about the magnitude and implications of MNCs' profit shifting to …
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“behavioral responses to taxation” can illuminate current debates about the magnitude and implications of MNCs' profit shifting to …
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The routine way of anticipating the effects of the corporate (profit) tax on investments and location choice is to calculate the effective marginal and average tax rates. This paper introduces a model of monopolistic competition to show how investment on the extensive and intensive margins...
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This paper explores empirically whether and how FDI is affected if multinationals’ home countries change taxation of … foreign earnings by switching from worldwide to territorial taxation. Our analysis employs data for German inbound FDI based … synthetic-control method. Our results confirm effects of the switch from worldwide to territorial taxation on FDI but point at …
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Using a large panel dataset on worldwide operations of multinational firms, this paper studies one of the most advocated anti-tax-avoidance measures: Controlled Foreign Corporation rules. By including income of foreign low-tax subsidiaries in the domestic tax base, these rules create incentives...
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resorted to empirical analysis in order to gain insights on the elasticity of FDI with respect to company taxation. As a result …, the empirical literature on taxation and international capital flows has grown to a similar abundance during the last 25 … empirical evidence. In this paper we extend former meta-analyses on FDI and taxation in three ways. First, we add the most …
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A growing body of economics literature shows that multinational corporations (MNCs) shift their profits to tax havens. We contribute to this evidence by comparing a range of available data sets focusing on US MNCs, including country-by-country reporting data which has been released in December...
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