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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Autore principale: Gu, Grace Weishi
Altri autori: Mooij, Ruud A., Poghosyan, Tigran
Natura: Periodico
Lingua:English
Pubblicazione: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2012.
Serie:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2012/281
Accesso online:Full text available on IMF