This paper explores the impact dividend taxes exert on the dividends repatriated from foreign affiliates to their German parent company. Based on an augmented Lintner model of firms' dividend payout decisions, the paper focusses on cross-border intra-firm dividend payments of wholly-owned...

A number of studies have recently explored China’s growing - yet still nascent - manufacturing investments in sub-Saharan Africa, which the World Bank hopes to see further expanded so as to ignite industrialization. These studies have looked mainly at the Africa-side situation (i.e., what is...