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The paper investigates the role of holding companies and conduit entities in German inbound and outbound FDI. It identifies the relevant conduit countries that act as stepping stones. Several tax and non-tax factors for the set-up of indirect structures are empirically identified. Withholding...
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This paper uses affiliate level data from Swedish multinationals to examine the impact of tax treaties on both overall affiliate sales and the composition of those sales. In line with previous results, we find little evidence for an effect of treaties on the level of total sales. We do, however,...
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This paper measures the relative importance of quality and quantity effects of corporate taxation on foreign direct … of production. Depending on the sign of the quality effects, the detrimental welfare effects of corporate taxation are …
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principle in corporate taxation and use comparable market prices to ‘correctly’ assess the value of intracompany trade and …
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of these findings for national corporate tax policy. Our main hypothesis is that domestic corporate taxation not only … paper identifies several channels through which domestic taxation may exert such a cross-border effect on foreign capital …, this cross-border tax effect on capital investment gives rise to a negative fiscal externality of corporate taxation which …
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Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct investment (FDI). The worldwide tax regime employed by the U.S. potentially distorts this choice by penalizing FDI, relative to FPI, in low-tax countries. On the other...
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This paper computes effective (marginal and average) tax rates that account 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 …-pair and time variant) effective tax rates leads to biased estimates of the impact of corporate taxation on FDI. …
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This paper develops a model of a monopolistically competitive industry with extensive and intensive business investment and shows how these margins respond to changes in average and marginal corporate tax rates. Intensive investment refers to the size of a firm’s capital stock. Extensive...
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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 …. We account for their differential impact under alternative methods of double taxation relief (i.e., credit, exemption …
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Outsourcing of labor intensive activities challenges the welfare state and undermines the protection of low-skilled workers. The stylized facts are that profits are concentrated among the high-skilled, involuntary unemployment is mostly among the low-skilled, and private unemployment insurance...
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