The Impact of Corporate Taxes on Foreign Direct Investment
2010 (English)Independent thesis Basic level (degree of Bachelor), 10 credits / 15 HE credits
Student thesis
Abstract [en]
This thesis investigates the impact that the corporate income tax rate has on inflows offoreign direct investment (FDI) in high-income OECD countries during the periods1998-2006. The thesis has a small focus on Sweden and how this country’s policies canaffect inward FDI. Moreover, the determinants of FDI are analyzed in order to build amodel that allows to see the influence that the statutory corporate income tax rate has onthese countries. OLS regressions are used to find the degree to which certain variables,specifically the corporate tax rate, have an impact of the dependent variable (i.e.aggregate inflows of FDI). The independent variables are: GDP, skilled labour, labourcosts, economic freedom as a proxy for trade openness and property rights,infrastructure, the corporate income tax rate, dummy variables to account for timeeffects and three dummy variables for continental location targeting whethergeographical location is of relevance of not.It is concluded that the corporate income tax rate does have a significant impact on FDIinflows in OECD members for the specified period. Additionally, economic freedom,gdp and geographical location are also found to be important variables that determinethe inflows of FDI. Other variables are found insignificant in almost all regressions.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
2010. , p. 27
Keywords [en]
Corporate Taxes FDI Foreign Direct Investment Sweden
National Category
Economics
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:hj:diva-14367OAI: oai:DiVA.org:hj-14367DiVA, id: diva2:389966
Presentation
2010-06-09, B5002, Jönköping, 15:09 (English)
Uppsok
Social and Behavioural Science, Law
Supervisors
Examiners
2011-01-242011-01-202011-01-24Bibliographically approved