Corporate tax elasticities: a reader's guide to empirical findings
de Mooij, Ruud ; Ederveen, Sjef
Oxford Review of Economic Policy
2008
24
4
Winter
680-697
corporation tax ; investment ; statistics ; taxation
Public finance and taxation
https://academic.oup.com/oxrep/issue
English
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"Corporate taxes exert a variety of effects on business behaviour. A wealth of empirical evidence assesses the magnitude of these behavioural margins of taxation. This article offers an up-to-date review and aims to provide common ground by computing for each distortion the semi-elasticity of the corporate tax base. We pay particular attention to international investment where it is not a priori clear whether marginal investment decisions or discrete locations are more important. Using an extension of the meta analysis of De Mooij and Ederveen (2003), we explore the extent to which existing studies reveal differences in effect size between the intensive and extensive margins of international investment."
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