Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/82120 
Year of Publication: 
2013
Series/Report no.: 
EPRU Working Paper Series No. 2013-02
Publisher: 
University of Copenhagen, Economic Policy Research Unit (EPRU), Copenhagen
Abstract: 
There is ample evidence that internal capital markets incur efficiency costs for multinational enterprises (MNEs). This paper analyzes whether tax avoidance behavior interacts with the costs of running an internal capital market and how policies of competing governments respond to it. We show that the interaction in itself may lead to profit taxes that are too high (low) from a social perspective, provided the costs are attenuated (magnified) by higher profit taxes. We also show that internal efficiency costs might render infrastructure provision inefficiently low. Further, we clarify the implications of the MNE’s decision to set up an internal capital market and the effect of external finance on the behavior of competing governments.
Subjects: 
fiscal competition
multinational firms
internal efficiency costs
corporate finance
corporate tax avoidance.
JEL: 
H25
D21
F23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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