Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/26088 
Year of Publication: 
2007
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2043
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The paper considers profit shifting behavior using data on German inbound and outbound FDI. It finds an empirical correlation between the home country tax rate of a parent and the net of tax profitability of its German affiliate that is consistent with profit shifting behavior. For profitable affiliates that are directly owned by a foreign investor the evidence suggests that a 10 percentage point increase in the parent's home country tax rate leads to roughly half a percentage point increase in the profitability of the German affiliate. On the outbound side of German FDI, the data provides some evidence that tax rate changes in the host country lead to a stronger change in after-tax profitability for affiliates that are wholly owned, which may reflect the larger flexibility of these firms in carrying out tax minimizing behavior without interference of minority owners.
JEL: 
H25
F23
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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