The effects of taxation on U.S. multinationals and their Canadian affiliates / [by] Jason G. Cummins ; prepared for the Technical Committee on Business Taxation. : F21-4/96-4E-PDF

I develop an empirical approach that provides a general framework for studying the behaviour of multinational corporations (MNCs). The approach begins with a dynamic structural model of the multinational firm. The model treats the MNC's factors of production in different countries as separate inputs into a general production technology and incorporates unobservable firm-specific productivity shocks and local demand shocks. The semiparametric econometric procedure I develop to estimate the model relies on the exit rule and input demand functions generated by the solution to the firm's stochastic dynamic decision problem to consistently estimate the parameters of the firm's production technology. I then estimate the technology parameters using a new firm-level panel dataset on U.S. MNCs and their Canadian affiliates.--Abstract

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Department/Agency Canada. Department of Finance.
Title The effects of taxation on U.S. multinationals and their Canadian affiliates / [by] Jason G. Cummins ; prepared for the Technical Committee on Business Taxation.
Series title Working paper96-4
Publication type Series - View Master Record
Language [English]
Other language editions [French]
Format Electronic
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Note(s) "I develop an empirical approach that provides a general framework for studying the behaviour of multinational corporations (MNCs). The approach begins with a dynamic structural model of the multinational firm. The model treats the MNC's factors of production in different countries as separate inputs into a general production technology and incorporates unobservable firm-specific productivity shocks and local demand shocks. The semiparametric econometric procedure I develop to estimate the model relies on the exit rule and input demand functions generated by the solution to the firm's stochastic dynamic decision problem to consistently estimate the parameters of the firm's production technology. I then estimate the technology parameters using a new firm-level panel dataset on U.S. MNCs and their Canadian affiliates."--Abstract.
Publishing information Ottawa - Ontario : Finance Canada December 1996.
Description 46p.graphs, references, tables
Catalogue number
  • F21-4/96-4E-PDF
Subject terms Taxes
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