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Corporate Taxation and International Financial Integration: U.S. evidence from a consolidated perspective

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  • Agustin S. Benetrix

    (Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin)

  • Andre Sanchez Pacheco

    (Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin)

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We document a robust relation between corporate tax differentials and U.S. international financial integration (IFI). While this is the case for traditional IFI based on cross-border positions, the positive link also emerges for its larger consolidated-by-nationality version. The gap between these IFI measures, the key outcome variable in our analysis, exhibits a strong positive correlation with tax differentials too. This is in part due to consolidated assets of multinational enterprises being more strongly correlated with tax differentials than their cross-border counterpart. We interpret this as indirect evidence of U.S. multinationals taking advantage of tax differentials in ways that go beyond what is captured by traditional Balance of Payments procedures.

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  • Agustin S. Benetrix & Andre Sanchez Pacheco, 2021. "Corporate Taxation and International Financial Integration: U.S. evidence from a consolidated perspective," Trinity Economics Papers tep0321, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics.
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    Keywords

    International financial integration; financial globalisation; multinational enterprises; corporate taxation;
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    JEL classification:

    • F36 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - Financial Aspects of Economic Integration
    • 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
    • H87 - Public Economics - - Miscellaneous Issues - - - International Fiscal Issues; International Public Goods

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