Tax Havens - Publications - Faculty & Research

August 2020 (Revised November 2022)
Case

George Soros: The Stateless Statesman

This case traces the business career and philanthropic activities of George Soros. The Hungarian-born Soros made a fortune as a hedge fund investor after establishing Quantum Fund on the tax haven island of Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles in 1973 where he was... View Details

Keywords: Hedge Fund; Philanthropy; Populism; Finance; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Political Elections; Personal Development and Career; Leadership Style; Financial Services Industry; Europe; Hungary; United Kingdom; North and Central America; United States

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Educators

Purchase

September 2012 (Revised September 2015)
Case

Doing Business in Turkey

By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Robin J. Ely, Daniela Beyersdorfer, Emilie Billaud and Cigdem Çelik

In a rather flat international business environment characterized by shrinking markets and economic turmoil, Turkey promoted itself as one of the safe havens for investments. Led by the strong domestic demand of a young population, the country had tripled its GDP... View Details

Keywords: Emerging Market Finance; Emergent Countries; Business History; Economic History; Fieldwork; Emerging Markets; Business Ventures; Strategy; Turkey

Citation

Educators

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

Technical Note 713-090): 1. To describe what tax havens are and the mechanics of how these jurisdictions operate. 2. To evaluate tax havens as a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2010
News

$how Me the Money

Baker, is an example of what he deems abusive, illegal transfer pricing: “A company in country A makes photocopy machines that have a production cost of $1,000. The company establishes a dummy corporation in a tax View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Legal Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2005
News

The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money

is sending the money abroad. It’s the illegal outflows that disappear from the books that go into tax havens and secrecy jurisdictions and then into American and European coffers. That’s a huge amount of... View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance

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