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The Instruments of Profit-Shifting

While multinational enterprises (MNEs) shift hundreds of billions in profits to low-tax jurisdictions annually, how they do remains disputed. Using firm-level data for France in 2018, we provide the first joint quantification of the three main …

Offshoring Wage Inequality in Tax Havens

We use matched employer-employee data on the universe of French firms to study the role of multinational enterprises' (MNEs) presence in tax havens in determining within-firm wage inequalities. We implement a difference-in-differences and a panel …

The effect of leaks on tax evasion