Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/216540 
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Year of Publication: 
2020
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 8144
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
This paper analyzes how internal debt financing of multinational firms affects high-tax countries. It uses a dynamic small open economy model and takes into account that internal debt impacts both the multinational firms' investment decisions and the government's tax policy. The government has incentives to redistribute income from firm owners to workers. If the government's redistributive motive is not too strong, internal debt reduces welfare in the short term by decreasing tax revenues. However, debt financing stimulates capital accumulation and exerts a positive long term welfare impact. If the multinational firm additionally manipulates transfer prices, the adverse short term welfare effects may extend to the long term.
Subjects: 
internal debt
profit shifting
tax havens
JEL: 
F23
H25
H70
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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