If conventional instruments of strategic trade policy are unavailable, the system of foreign profit taxation and transfer price guidelines may serve as surrogate policy instruments. In this paper, I consider a model where firms from two countries compete with each other on a third market. I...

Recent empirical studies find that foreign direct investment (FDI) by a multinational firm is not associated with a reduction of the firm's domestic activities. As it is often argued, this finding may imply that a country should not tax the firm's foreign profit income since this reduces foreign...

Obwohl die Politik stets beteuert, keine Schulden machen zu wollen, bekommen die meisten Staaten ihr Verschuldungsproblem nicht in den Griff. Ein Vergleich mit individuellen Problemen der Selbstkontrolle, etwa bei Übergewichtigen oder Rauchern, bietet sich hier an. Würden die Staaten den...