In 2009, the United Kingdom abolished the taxation of profits earned abroad and introduced a territorial tax system. Under the territorial system, firms have strong incentives to shift profits abroad. Using a difference-in-differences research design, we show that profits of UK subsidiaries in...

This paper investigates the impact of separate accounting (SA) versus that of formula apportionment (FA) on investment decisions in high- and low-corporate income tax countries. As the investment decisions of multinational enterprises are commonly taken by managers and not by owners, the focus...

It would not take a long time for a firm to determine factory fs location when the firm fs production activity was almost confined in a country. While, in the globalized economy a firm takes a series of steps to decide factory fs location since spatial range of a firm fs production activity is...