This paper assesses the impact of corporate taxation on multinational activity. A numerically solvable general equilibrium model of trade and multinational firms is used to incorporate the following components of corporate taxation: parent and host country statutory corporate tax rates,...

This paper computes (marginal and average) forward-looking effective tax rates for a sample of more than 650; 000 firms in and outside of Europe using Bureau van Dijk's ORBIS data-base. Comparing the firm-level effective tax rates with their country-level counterparts we arrive at two important...

This paper computes effective (marginal and average) tax rates that ac- count for bilateral aspects of taxation and, therefore, vary across country pairs and years. These tax rates serve to estimate the impact of corporate taxation on outbound stocks of bilateral foreign direct investment (FDI)...

This paper computes (marginal and average) forward-looking effective tax rates for a sample of more than 650,000 firms in and outside of Europe using Bureau van Dijk’s ORBIS data-base. Comparing the firm-level effective tax rates with their country-level counterparts we arrive at two important...

This paper computes (marginal and average) forward-looking effective tax rates for a sample of more than 650,000 firms in and outside of Europe using Bureau van Dijk’s ORBIS data-base. Comparing the firm-level effective tax rates with their country-level counterparts we arrive at two important...

This paper develops a structural empirical general equilibrium model of aggregate bilateral trade with path dependence of country-pair level exporter status. Such path dependence is motivated through informational costs about serving a foreign market for first-time entry of (firms in) an export...