On the measurement of investment types: Heterogeneity in corporate tax elasticities

Hendrik Jungmann () and Simon Loretz
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Hendrik Jungmann: University of Salzburg

No 2016-1, Working Papers in Economics from University of Salzburg

Abstract: This paper highlights the importance of different investment motives and to what extend they affect the responsiveness to corporate taxation. In particular, we discuss how to classify investment as non-related, horizontal, vertical and complex types using a combination of both firm-specific (ownership) information and sector-specific information from input-output tables. Hereby, we point out to what extend the resulting classification depends on assumptions made by the researcher. Following this, we examine the effects of host-country corporate taxation on the volume of investment within related firms (i.e., the intensive margin). We are able to quantitatively replicate the average result in the empirical literature with an overall tax semi-elasticity of approximately -1.5. Taking into account firm-heterogeneity we find that non-related investments react stronger to corporate taxation whereas horizontal investments are less responsive, though, significant negative tax semi-elasticities turn out for the subset of manufacturing industries where horizontal investment is much more prevalent. As the strict categorical classification still yields ambiguous results for both vertical and complex investments we extend the methodology by defining shares of investment and make the point that, by and large, stronger business motives reduce the tax responsiveness of investment.

Keywords: Corporate Taxation; Investment Strategy; Panel Econometrics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F23 H25 L25 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 37 pages
Date: 2016-04-15
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