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  • November 2013 (Revised March 2014)
  • Technical Note

Tax Havens

By: Eric Werker, Sebastian Berardi, Stelios Elia, Omar Muakkassa and James Zumberge
Multinational corporations and wealthy individuals often use so-called tax havens to establish subsidiaries or holding companies in order to rebalance profits across borders with the primary purpose of lowering their effective tax rate. This note describes the use of... View Details
Keywords: Tax Havens; Saving; Taxation
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Werker, Eric, Sebastian Berardi, Stelios Elia, Omar Muakkassa, and James Zumberge. "Tax Havens." Harvard Business School Technical Note 714-019, November 2013. (Revised March 2014.)
  • September 2002 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens

By: Mihir A. Desai, James R. Hines, Jr and Mark Veblen
In response to Stanley Work's announcement that it is moving to Bermuda--and the associated jump in market value--a major competitor sets out to determine how the market is valuing the consequences of moving to a tax haven and whether his company should invert to a tax... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Taxation; Financial Strategy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; International Finance; Valuation; Financial Markets; Financial Statements; United States
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Desai, Mihir A., James R. Hines, Jr, and Mark Veblen. "Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens." Harvard Business School Case 203-008, September 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
  • 24 Jul 2008
  • News

Senate Panel Will Probe a Tax Haven

  • February 2006
  • Article

Do Tax Havens Divert Economic Activity?

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Keywords: Taxation; Economics
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Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Do Tax Havens Divert Economic Activity?" Economics Letters 90, no. 2 (February 2006): 219–224.
  • March 2006
  • Article

The Demand for Tax Haven Operations

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
Keywords: Taxation
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Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "The Demand for Tax Haven Operations." Journal of Public Economics 90, no. 3 (March 2006): 513–531.
  • 2004
  • Working Paper

Economic Effects of Regional Tax Havens

By: Mihir A. Desai, C. Fritz Foley and James R. Hines Jr.
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Desai, Mihir A., C. Fritz Foley, and James R. Hines Jr. "Economic Effects of Regional Tax Havens." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 10806, October 2004.
  • 14 Apr 2013
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Heavens, Not Havens

  • August 2005
  • Teaching Note

Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai, Mark Veblen and Kathleen Luchs
Keywords: Taxation; Corporate Accountability
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Desai, Mihir A., Mark Veblen, and Kathleen Luchs. "Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 206-013, August 2005.
  • September 2004
  • Supplement

Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens (CW)

By: Mihir A. Desai
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Desai, Mihir A. "Corporate Inversions: Stanley Works and the Lure of Tax Havens (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 205-705, September 2004.
  • 01 Dec 2011
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A Modest Tax Proposal

tax havens that collect little or no taxes, like Bermuda and the Cayman Islands. These havens violate the premise of the territorial system, which is that corporate profits are... View Details
Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays
  • October 2013 (Revised March 2015)
  • Case

Cyprus (A)

By: Eric Werker, Sebastian Berardi, Stelios Elia, Omar Muakkassa and James Zumberge
Cyprus is a small Mediterranean island located at the cross-roads of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Since its 1974 split, Cyprus has grown real GDP more than fivefold—in large part because of its development as an "international business" center. The country... View Details
Keywords: Tax Havens; Taxation; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Cyprus
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Werker, Eric, Sebastian Berardi, Stelios Elia, Omar Muakkassa, and James Zumberge. "Cyprus (A)." Harvard Business School Case 714-010, October 2013. (Revised March 2015.)
  • October 2013 (Revised March 2015)
  • Supplement

Cyprus (B)

By: Eric Werker, Sebastian Berardi, Stelios Elia, Omar Muakkassa and James Zumberge
Keywords: Tax Havens; Financial Crisis; Cyprus
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Werker, Eric, Sebastian Berardi, Stelios Elia, Omar Muakkassa, and James Zumberge. "Cyprus (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 714-011, October 2013. (Revised March 2015.)
  • 07 Apr 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

a plan to curb foreign tax havens and end tax breaks for "companies that ship jobs overseas" in May, 2009.) One heated issue is the charge that the U.S. View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2011 (Revised December 2019)
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Wealth Management Crisis at UBS (A)

By: Paul M. Healy
The case describes the challenges that UBS faced as a result of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation for tax fraud, that claimed that UBS had helped some 52,000 U.S. residents hide billions of dollars in untaxed assets in secret Swiss accounts between... View Details
Keywords: Fraud; Regulatory Enforcement; Reputation Incentives; Crony Capitalism; Tax Havens; Legitimacy; Multinational; Strategic Change; Incentives; Transparency; Financial Services; Taxation; Crime and Corruption; Global Range; Asset Management; Ethics; Problems and Challenges; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; United States; Switzerland
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Healy, Paul M., George Serafeim, and David Lane. "Wealth Management Crisis at UBS (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-082, March 2011. (Revised December 2019.)
  • March 2011 (Revised February 2018)
  • Supplement

Wealth Management Crisis at UBS (B)

By: George Serafeim
The case describes the resolution of the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) investigation for tax fraud and the increasing pressure on the wealth management business. View Details
Keywords: Fraud; Regulatory Enforcement; Reputation Incentives; Crony Capitalism; Tax Havens; Legitimacy; Multinational; Strategic Change; Corporate Governance; Incentives; Transparency; Financial Services; Wealth; Taxation; Crime and Corruption; Global Range; Governance; Business and Government Relations; Asset Management; United States
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Healy, Paul M., George Serafeim, and David Lane. "Wealth Management Crisis at UBS (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-090, March 2011. (Revised February 2018.)
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Elusive Safety: The New Geography of Capital Flows and Risk

By: Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia, Ruth Judson and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr
A confidential dataset with industry-level disaggregation of U.S. cross-border claims and liabilities, shows U.S. securities to be increasingly intermediated by tax-haven-financial-centers (THFC) and less regulated funds. These securities are risky, in... View Details
Keywords: Tax Havens; Financial Centers; Geography Of Flows; Profit Shifting; Tax Avoidance; Risk; Safe Assets; Hetergeneous Firms; Endogenous Entry; Endogenous Monitoring; Regulatory Arbitrage; Assets; Safety; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; Global Range
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Alfaro, Laura, Ester Faia, Ruth Judson, and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr. "Elusive Safety: The New Geography of Capital Flows and Risk." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-099, March 2020. (Revised February 2021.)
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s

By: Sabine Pitteloud
This working paper investigates unintended consequences of U.S. FDI in Switzerland in the 1950s-1960s: the increased competition that U.S. firms generated within the national labor market and the challenge their hiring practices constituted for the institutional... View Details
Keywords: Multinationals; Capitalism; Business & Government Relations; Foreign Direct Investment; Immigration Policy; History; Switzerland; Americanization; R&D; Labor History; Labor Market Institutions; Tax Havens; "USA,"; Business Interest Association; Lobbying; Labor and Management Relations; Business History; Multinational Firms and Management
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Pitteloud, Sabine. "Multinationals and Varieties of Capitalism: When U.S. Giants Stepped into the Swiss Coordinated Labor Market in the 1950s." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-075, June 2022.
  • 12 May 2020
  • Working Paper Summaries

Elusive Safety: The New Geography of Capital Flows and Risk

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia, Ruth Judson, and Tim Schmidt-Eisenlohr
  • 17 Jul 2012
  • News

Tax, offshoring, and the Washington gridlock

  • 16 May 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Juan Carlos Suárez Serrato, Duke University, Economics

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