Taxation and the Birth of Foreign Subsidiaries

Hans-Werner Sinn

No 3519, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: The paper studies the influence of tax policy on foreign direct investment with a particular emphasis on immature subsidiaries. Among other things it shows that taxes on repatriations reduce the subsidiary's "birth weight", that lump sum taxes reduce its cost of capital, and that the possibility of deferral increases this cost. The paper rejects the popular weighted average specification of the subsidiary's cost of capital.

Date: 1990-11
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Published as Herberg, Horst and Ngo Van Long (eds.) Trade, welfare, and economic policies: Papers in Honour of Murray C . Kemp. Ann Arbor: Michigan University Press, 1993.

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Working Paper: TAXATION AND THE BIRTH OF FOREIGN SUBSIDIARIES (1990)
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