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Foreign direct investment in the enlarged EU: do taxes matter and to what extent?

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dc.creator Wolff, Guntram B.
dc.date 2006
dc.date.accessioned 2013-10-16T07:06:01Z
dc.date.available 2013-10-16T07:06:01Z
dc.date.issued 2013-10-16
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19640
dc.identifier ppn:510394078
dc.identifier RePEc:zbw:bubdp1:4249
dc.identifier.uri http://koha.mediu.edu.my:8181/xmlui/handle/10419/19640
dc.description 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.
dc.language eng
dc.relation Discussion paper Series 1 / Volkswirtschaftliches Forschungszentrum der Deutschen Bundesbank 2006,13
dc.rights http://www.econstor.eu/dspace/Nutzungsbedingungen
dc.subject H8
dc.subject H2
dc.subject F2
dc.subject F3
dc.subject E6
dc.subject F4
dc.subject ddc:330
dc.subject Foreign direct investment
dc.subject FDI
dc.subject corporate taxes
dc.subject sample selection model
dc.subject profit re-allocation
dc.subject Unternehmensbesteuerung
dc.subject Steuerwirkung
dc.subject Direktinvestition
dc.subject Gewinnverlagerung
dc.subject EU-Staaten
dc.subject EU-Staaten <Osteuropa>
dc.title Foreign direct investment in the enlarged EU: do taxes matter and to what extent?
dc.type doc-type:workingPaper


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