How are factors such as corruption perception and the level of democracy influencing foreign direct investment to developing economies?

This article is the first to show that foreign investors care about economic freedoms, rather than political freedoms, in making decisions about where to locate capital. Hence more democratic countries may receive less Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) flows if economic freedoms are not...

How are factors such as corruption perception and the level of democracy influencing foreign direct investment to developing economies?

This paper analyses the impact of two new international tax provisions, GILTI and FDII, passed under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, on U.S. multinational corporations' location of new capital. We analyze whether these rules help retain internationally mobile rents within the U.S. tax base and the...

Singh and Mathur find that the emphasis on the OECD's concept of "economic substance" can have a significant impact on the scale as well as the location of economic activity and likely has highly unfavorable implications on economic activity for high-tax jurisdictions. Viewed from a U.S....

The OECDs Base Erosion and Profit Shifting project has focused on income attributed to intangibles with an objective of curtailing perceived artificial profit shifting by multinational firms.

This paper analyses the impact of two new international tax provisions, GILTI and FDII, passed under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, on U.S. multinational corporations' location of new capital. We analyze whether these rules help retain internationally mobile rents within the U.S. tax base and the...