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Taxes and the Financial Structure of German Inward FDI

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dc.creator Ramb, Fred
dc.creator Weichenrieder, Alfons J.
dc.date 2005
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T06:56:53Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T06:56:53Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/17807
dc.identifier ppn:495868094
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/17807
dc.description The paper analyses the financial structure of German inward FDI. From a tax perspective, intra-company loans granted by the parent should be all the more strongly preferred over equity the lower the tax rate of the parent and the higher the tax rate of the German affiliate. From our study of a panel of more than 8,000 non-financial affiliates in Germany, we find only small effects of the tax rate of the foreign parent. However, our empirical results show that subsidiaries that on average are profitable react more strongly to changes in the German corporate tax rate than this is the case for less profitable firms. This gives support to the frequent concern that high German taxes are partly responsible for the high levels of intra-company loans. Taxation, however, does not fully explain the high levels of intra-company borrowing. Roughly 60% of the cross-border intra-company loans turn out to be held by firms that are running losses.
dc.language eng
dc.publisher Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW) Kiel
dc.relation Kieler Arbeitspapiere 1252
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject F23
dc.subject H25
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject foreign direct investment
dc.subject financial structure
dc.subject taxation
dc.subject Direktinvestition
dc.subject Internationale Finanzierung
dc.subject Kapitalstruktur
dc.subject Auslandsniederlassung
dc.subject Steuerbelastung
dc.subject Deutschland
dc.title Taxes and the Financial Structure of German Inward FDI
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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