Taxation and Leverage in International Banking /

This paper explores how corporate taxes affect the financial structure of multinational banks. Guided by a simple theory of optimal capital structure it tests (i) whether corporate taxes induce subsidiary banks to raise their debt-asset ratio in light of the traditional debt bias; and (ii) whether i...

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1. Verfasser: Gu, Grace Weishi
Weitere Verfasser: Mooij, Ruud A., Poghosyan, Tigran
Format: Zeitschrift
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Schriftenreihe:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/281
Online Zugang:Full text available on IMF