The extent to which geographic distance is a barrier to technological knowledge transfer is of interest to governments of countries distant from centres of knowledge creation or technology production; to entrepreneurs deciding where to locate a new firm that will need to remain abreast of technological developments; and to national or local policymakers seeking to […]
Following the release of the Panama Papers and the Pardise Papers, there has been renewed research into profit shifting by multinational firms. This column utilises a novel dataset to show that well-managed subsidiaries, independently of their headquarters, allow a company to be more responsive to tax changes, shifting more profits from high-tax to low-tax jurisdictions. […]