Corporate taxation and the choice of patent location within multinational firms

Journal of International Economics

Volumn 88, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 176-185

  Karkinsky, Tom ^a   Riedel, Nadine ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOHENHEIM   (Germany)

^c CESIFO   (Germany)

Author keywords

Corporate taxation; Multinational enterprise; Profit shifting

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; FIRM SIZE; MACROECONOMICS; MULTINATIONAL ENTERPRISE; PROFITABILITY; TAX SYSTEM;

EID: 84865724094     PISSN: 00221996     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jinteco.2012.04.002     Document Type: Article

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