This article aims to examine relevant issues to be considered in the Brazilian international fiscal policy in relation to the possible taxation of offshore indirect transfers. This analysis initially outlines the main economic principles and tax policies that may contribute to answer the...

Trade theory consists of a portfolio of models. What elements might be useful in modeling the offshoring of white-collar services, or do these issues call for an entirely fresh approach? I try to identifying some of the important aspects of this phenomenon and then argue that modeling could...

In this study, we develop a two-country model to examine whether border carbon adjustments (BCAs) are more effective than emission tax alone in preventing carbon leakage and decreasing global emissions with endogenous assembly locations. Specifically, we explore three policy regimes: i) emission...

This paper takes a new approach to testing the impact of state environmental regulatory stringency on firms' location decisions, focusing on firms' allocation of production across states. We use Census data for the paper industry to measure the share of each firm's production in each state...

We develop a positive model of multinational firm behavior and analyze a firm’s incentive to transfer an intellectual property (IP) right of uncertain value offshore ex ante, i.e. before its success or failure is realized. With an asymmetric treatment of losses in the home country, the...

Suppose a firm that produces `manufactureds', and that is located in a `high (production) cost' country is granted a patent and seeks to protect itself against competition which feasibly emerges at expiration of patent protection. Formal theoretical predictions show setting up of production in...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in advanced business services (ABSs), referred to here as the offshoring of white-collar jobs, has become one of the major developments in the operations of multinational corporations (MNCs). However, a specific theoretical approach to this phenomenon has not been...

We propose a multi-country endogenous growth model to understand the innovation relocation led by multinational production (MP). The model squares with the fact that countries with large net outward (inward) MP tend to specialize in product (process) innovation. The calibrated model shows that...

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between patterns of integration in global value chains (GVCs), the ‘quality’ of such integration in terms of technological capabilities and the structure of employment in European countries and sectors. We study employment shares in...