In recent months, the Irish corporate tax regime has featured prominently in international tax policy debates, especially within the context of European tax reforms, high-profile corporate earnings reports and multinational investment flows changes.As financial repression sweeps across the OECD...

Do corporate tax increases destroy jobs? And do corporate tax cuts boost employment? Answering these questions has proved empirically challenging. We propose an identification strategy that exploits variation in corporate income tax rates across U.S. states. Comparing contiguous counties...

This paper studies the impact of corporate tax policy on the economy in the presence of both convex and nonconvex capital adjustment costs in a dynamic general equilibrium model. We show that corporate tax policy generates both intensive and extensive margin effects via the channel of marginal...

This paper analyzes enhanced cooperation agreements in corporate taxation in a three country tax competition model where countries differ in size. We characterize equilibrium tax rates and the optimal tax responses due to the formation of an enhanced cooperation agreement. Conditions for...

What are the macroeconomic implications of re-allocating taxing rights away from source countries (where goods are produced) to market countries (where goods are consumed) and introducing minimum rates in international profit taxation? We assess this question in a dynamic macroeconomic model...

Tax avoidance strategies of well-known U.S. multinationals such as Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., and Hewlett-Packard Co. have received much attention recently. Multinationals' use of foreign shell entities to shift income away from the United States is subject to scrutiny. The debate is primarily...

"Should I stay or should I go… "? The implementation of the EU's internal market, characterized in the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union ( TFUE) as "an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured", together with...

[EN] “Should I stay or should I go… ”? The implementation of the EU’s internal market, characterized in the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union ( TFUE) as ”an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured”,...

[EN] “Should I stay or should I go… ”? The implementation of the EU’s internal market, characterized in the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union ( TFUE) as ”an area without internal frontiers in which the free movement of goods, persons, services and capital is ensured”,...

This paper uses a stratified sample of firms across OECD economies over the period 1996-2004 to analyse the effects of corporate taxes on productivity and investment. Applying a differences-in-differences estimation strategy which exploits differential effects of corporate taxes on firms with...