Macroeconomic and corporate adjustment progress in East Germany (12th joint report by DIW Berlin, IfW Kiel and IWH Halle)
Forschungsreihe,
No. 1,
1995
Abstract
Schwerpunkt des 12. Berichtes ist eine Einschätzung über den (bis 1994) erreichten Stand bei der Erneuerung und Modernisierung des Kapitalstocks in den neuen Ländern. Hierzu werden Untersuchungsergebnisse zur Entwicklung der Investitionen und des Anlagevermögens im ostdeutschen Unternehmenssektor dargestellt. In Verbindung damit erfolgt eine kritische Bewertung der Investitionsförderung.
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Corporate Social Responsibility and Profit Shifting
Iftekhar Hasan, Panagiotis I. Karavitis, Pantelis Kazakis, Woon Sau Leung
European Accounting Review,
2099
Abstract
This paper examines the relation between corporate social responsibility (CSR) performance and tax–motivated income shifting. Using a profit–shifting measure estimated from multinational enterprises (MNEs) data, we find that parent firms with higher CSR scores shift significantly more profits to their low-tax foreign subsidiaries. Overall, our evidence suggests that MNEs engaging in CSR activities acquire legitimacy and moral capital that temper negative responses by stakeholders and thus have greater scope and chance to engage in unethical profit-shifting activities, consistent with the legitimacy theory.
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