Tax Treaties, Renegotiations, and Foreign Direct Investment

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2003-06-10

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Davies, Ronald B.

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University of Oregon, Dept. of Economics

Abstract

Bilateral tax treaties are an important method of international tax cooperation. I survey the existing literature on these agreements, highlighting the differences between the standard view that treaties increase foreign direct investment and the empirical evidence that finds no such effect. I also provide new empirical results on the impact of renegotiations on foreign direct investment. I find that, comparable to other empirical studies on tax treaties, renegotiations have no robust positive impact on FDI.

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International economics, Public economics

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