Arena, Matteo P.; Roper, Andrew H. - In: Journal of Corporate Finance 16 (2010) 5, pp. 637-654
We provide new evidence that differences in international tax rates and tax regimes affect multinational firms' debt location decisions. Our sample contains 8287 debt issues from 2437 firms headquartered in 23 different countries with debt-issuing subsidiaries in 59 countries. We analyze firms'...