International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions

Salvador Barrios (), Harry Huizinga, Luc Laeven and Gaëtan Nicodème

No 08-037.RS, Working Papers CEB from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles

Abstract: Using a large international firm-level data set, we estimate separate effects of host and parent country taxation on the location decisions of multinational firms. Both types of taxation are estimated to have a negative impact on the location of new foreign subsidiaries. In fact, the impact of parent country taxation is estimated to be relatively large, possibly reflecting its international discriminatory nature. For the cross-section of multinational firms, we find that parent firms tend to be located in countries with a relatively low taxation of foreign-source income. Overall, our results show that parent-country taxation – despite the general possibility of deferral of taxation until income repatriation – is instrumental in shaping the structure of multinational enterprise.

Keywords: corporate taxation; dividend withholding taxation; location decisions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F23 G32 H25 R38 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 47 p.
Date: 2008
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-cfn and nep-pbe
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (33)

Published by:

Downloads: (external link)
https://dipot.ulb.ac.be/dspace/bitstream/2013/5396 ... ol_wpaper_08-037.pdf RePEc_sol_wpaper_08-037 (application/pdf)

Related works:
Journal Article: International taxation and multinational firm location decisions (2012)
Working Paper: International taxation and multinational firm location decisions (2009)
Working Paper: International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions (2009)
Working Paper: International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions (2008)
Working Paper: International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions (2008)
Working Paper: International Taxation and Multinational Firm Location Decisions (2008)
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:sol:wpaper:08-037

Ordering information: This working paper can be ordered from
http://hdl.handle.ne ... ulb.ac.be:2013/53963

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers CEB from ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Benoit Pauwels ().