Multinational companies can exploit the tax advantage of debt more aggressively than national companies. Besides utilizing the standard debt tax shield, multinationals can shift debt from affiliates in low-tax countries to affiliates in high-tax countries. We study the capital structure of...

Megafusionen werfen viele Fragen auf: Handelt es sich um die rationale Antwort auf Globalisierung und deregulierte Märkte? Oder entspringen solche Zusammenschlüsse eher dem Machtwillen eines "größenwahnsinnigen" Managements? Und welche wettbewerbspolitischen Konsequenzen haben diese...

This paper sets up an imperfect-competition model of a small open economy, and undertakes a welfare comparison of the Corporate Business Income Tax (CBIT) and the Allowance for Corporate Equity tax (ACE). A main result is that a small open economy should levy a positive source tax on capital in...