Using a rich panel data base for firms in Asian countries, we assess the effect of public sector corruption on corporate assets investment and tax payments. Our findings suggest that public sector corruption does not deter investment activities of national firms while asset investment of...

We examine the extent to which taxes on corporate income are directly shifted onto the workforce. We use data on 55,082 companies located in nine European countries over the period 1996-2003. We identify this direct shifting through cross-company variation in tax liabilities, conditional on...

This thesis investigates empirically the effects of the corporate income tax in an open economy. The analysis is carried out using linear panel-data regression methods. The first chapter studies the incidence of the corporate income tax. It introduces a model with location-specific rents which...

This paper examines the differences in total factor productivity (TFP) between multinationals and domestic firms before and after tax rate changes to investigate whether the host country corporate tax rate has a significant in fluence on the measured TFP advantage of multinational companies....

Using consolidated firm-level accounting data for about 3,400 companies in 15 OECD countries from ORBIS (2003{2007), this paper compares the tax burden of companies headquartered in worldwide countries with that of companies headquartered in territorial countries. The tax burden is measured by a...

This paper investigates the effect of tax haven operations on the tax liabilities of corporate groups headquartered in 15 OECD countries. Using consolidated accounting data from ORBIS (2003{2007), this work finds that, at the mean, an additional tax haven subsidiary reduces tax liabilities over...