This paper analyzes how corporate taxation affects the capital structure of subsidiaries of multinational companies. The emphasis is on firm characteristics that proxy for the tax status of a subsidiary, which is crucial for the tax responsiveness of firms. Based on a comprehensive panel of...

Ulrich Schreiber discusses the economic and legal aspects of the corporate income tax reform and considers its effects for both inbound and outbound foreign investment. With respect to the latter, the reform makes foreign equity financed investment more attractive. At the same time, it may...

This paper empirically analyzes whether both personal and corporate taxation have an influence on companies´ capital structure decisions. We investigate the effect of the difference in taxation of debt and equity financing on capital structure. Our empirical results, based on a panel of...

In a theoretical model local jurisdictions provide a public input and a public consumption good financed by a tax on capital income. When deciding about tax rate and budget structure the jurisdictions will generally respond to each other's fiscal choices irrespective of whether their policy is...