Arbeitspapier
Foreign direct investment in the enlarged EU: do taxes matter and to what extent?
Foreign direct investment is of increasing importance in the European Union. This paper estimates the effect of taxes on foreign direct investment (FDI) flows and on three sub-components of these flows for the countries of the en- larged European Union. The model in the spirit of gravity equations robustly explains FDI flows between the 25 member states. Sample selection needs to be addressed in the estimation. We show that the different subcomponents of FDI should and indeed do react differently to taxes. After controlling for unobserved country characteristics and common time effects, the top statutory corporate tax rate of both, source and host country, turn insignificant for total FDI and investment into equity. However, high source country taxes clearly increase the probability of firms to re-invest profits abroad and lower the percentage of debt financed FDI. This might reflect profit re-allocation to avoid taxes. Market size factors have the expected signs for total FDI. Non-productivity adjusted wages as determinants of FDI are less robust.
- Sprache
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Englisch
- Erschienen in
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Series: Discussion Paper Series 1 ; No. 2006,13
- Klassifikation
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Wirtschaft
- Thema
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Foreign direct investment
FDI
corporate taxes
sample selection model
profit re-allocation
Unternehmensbesteuerung
Steuerwirkung
Direktinvestition
Gewinnverlagerung
EU-Staaten
EU-Staaten
- Ereignis
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (wer)
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Wolff, Guntram B.
- Ereignis
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Veröffentlichung
- (wer)
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Deutsche Bundesbank
- (wo)
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Frankfurt a. M.
- (wann)
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2006
- Handle
- Letzte Aktualisierung
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20.09.2024, 08:23 MESZ
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Objekttyp
- Arbeitspapier
Beteiligte
- Wolff, Guntram B.
- Deutsche Bundesbank
Entstanden
- 2006
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