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Trading Market Access For Technology? Tax Incentives, Foreign Direct Investment And Productivity Spillovers In China, Ziliang Deng, Rod Falvey, Adam Blake
Trading Market Access For Technology? Tax Incentives, Foreign Direct Investment And Productivity Spillovers In China, Ziliang Deng, Rod Falvey, Adam Blake
Rodney Falvey
Tax incentives have been adopted worldwide to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and its superior technology. However whether tax incentives can promote FDI productivity spillovers remains unknown. We develop a static computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of China to explore it. The results suggest that abolishing differential tax system leads to weaker FDI spillovers in the short term. Nonetheless, the reform lifts up the productivity entry threshold for foreign firms, and the surviving domestic firms become more productive and thus more capable of absorbing productivity spillover.
The Effect Of Taxes On Multinational Debt Location, Matteo Arena, Andrew Roper
The Effect Of Taxes On Multinational Debt Location, Matteo Arena, Andrew Roper
Matteo P. Arena
We provide new evidence that differences in international tax rates and tax regimes affect multinational firms' debt location decisions. Our sample contains 8287 debt issues from 2437 firms headquartered in 23 different countries with debt-issuing subsidiaries in 59 countries. We analyze firms' marginal decisions of where to issue debt to investigate the influence of a comprehensive set of tax-related effects, including differences in personal and corporate tax rates, tax credit and exemption systems, and bi-lateral cross-country withholding taxes on interest and dividend payments. Our results show that differences in personal and corporate tax rates, the presence of dividend imputation or …