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Taxation, Business Environment and FDI Location in OECD Countries

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Dana Hajkova
Giuseppe Nicoletti
Laura Vartia
Kwang-Yeol Yoo

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This paper assesses the importance of taxation on foreign direct investment contributing to the literature in two ways. First, it relates bilateral FDI among OECD countries over the 1990s to a new set of estimates of corporate tax wedges that include many relevant aspects of FDI taxation. Second, it controls for a large set of additional policy and non-policy factors that may affect the attractiveness of a country for foreign investors. Furthermore, the empirical approach is novel in that it focuses on a semi-parametric estimation methodology that accounts for a number of unobserved effects possibly impinging on the choice of investment location by multinational enterprises. Consistent with previous findings, the estimation results suggest that corporate taxation has a non-negligible impact on FDI location choices. However, the results suggest that focusing only on taxation in home and host countries and omitting other policies (such as border policies and labour and product market settings) may lead to a serious overestimation of tax elasticities and their relevance for policy.

Fiscalité, environnement des entreprises et localisation des IDE dans les pays OCDE
Cette étude évalue l'importance des politiques fiscales pour les investissements directs étrangers (IDE). Il contribue a littérature de deux façons: d'une part, l'étude établit un rapport entre les IDE bilatéraux dans les pays de l'OCDE pendant les années 90 et un nouvel ensemble d'indicateurs de taux effectifs d'imposition des sociétés couvrant plusieurs aspects de la taxation sur les IDE. D?autre part, il contrôle pour un ensemble des politiques économiques et autres facteurs susceptibles d'influencer l'attractivité d'un territoire pour les investisseurs étrangers. En outre, l'approche empirique est originale dans la mesure où elle utilise une méthodologie d'estimation semi-parametrique qui tient compte des effets inobservables affectant le choix de localisation des entreprises multinationales. En ligne avec les conclusions de la littérature, les résultats indiquent que l'imposition des sociétés a des incidences non-négligeables sur les choix de localisation des IDE. Cependant, les résultats indiquent qu'il est possible de sérieusement surestimer les élasticités par rapport aux taxes et leur importance politique en se concentrant seulement sur les impôts dans les pays d'origine et d'accueil des investissements, sans prendre en compte un certain nombre de politiques (telles que les obstacles frontaliers et le fonctionnement du marché du travail et des produits).

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Paper provided by OECD, Economics Department in its series OECD Economics Department Working Papers with number 502.

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Keywords: corporate taxation; foreign direct investment; panel data; regulation; données de panel; fiscalité des entreprises; investissement direct étranger;

Find related papers by JEL classification:
C23 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Single Equation Models; Single Variables - - - Models with Panel Data
F21 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - International Investment; Long-Term Capital Movements
F23 - International Economics - - International Factor Movements and International Business - - - Multinational Firms; International Business
H23 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Externalities; Redistributive Effects; Environmental Taxes and Subsidies
H25 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue - - - Business Taxes and Subsidies
L50 - Industrial Organization - - Regulation and Industrial Policy - - - General

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  3. Timothy Goodspeed & Jorge Martinez-Vazquez & JLi Zhang, 2007. "Are Government Policies More Important Than Taxation in Attracting FDI?," International Studies Program Working Paper Series, at AYSPS, GSU paper0702, International Studies Program, Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University. [Downloadable!]
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