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...

This paper analyses pro-competitive effects of increased trade openness in the manufacturing industry in Ecuador. The data comes from the survey of manufacturing and mining industries in Ecuador for the years 1997-2003. Estimation procedures on both industry- and establishment-level data try to...

This paper presents an analysis of the dynamics of total factor productivity measures for large plants in SICs 35, 36 and 38. Several TFP measures, derived from production functions and Solow type residuals, are computed and their behavior over time is compared, using non-parametric tools....