Gerner-Beuerle, CJ;
Mucciarelli, F;
Schuster, E;
Siems, M;
(2018)
Why do businesses incorporate in other EU Member States? An empirical analysis of the role of conflict of laws rules.
International Review of Law and Economics
, 56
pp. 14-27.
10.1016/j.irle.2018.05.002.
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Abstract
Research in law, political science and economics has taken a strong interest in the way companies strategically incorporate in foreign jurisdictions. However, the empirical research about corporate mobility in the EU has so far been limited in two respects: it has focused on the analysis of foreign companies in the UK and it has mainly been concerned with differences in the costs of incorporation such as minimum capital requirements. This paper aims to fill these gaps. It is the first paper that presents data on incorporations of foreign businesses in the commercial registers of each EU Member State. It is also the first one to assess the impact of differences in the conflict of laws rules applicable to companies as they reflect the case law of the Court of Justice on the freedom of establishment. It finds that countries which have a clear-cut version of the ‘incorporation theory’ attract more incorporations than countries which have retained elements of the ‘real seat theory’. The paper also discusses the policy implications from these findings for EU harmonisation in this field.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | Why do businesses incorporate in other EU Member States? An empirical analysis of the role of conflict of laws rules |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.irle.2018.05.002 |
Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.irle.2018.05.002 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. |
Keywords: | Freedom of establishment, Market for incorporations, Corporate mobility, Conflict of laws, Private international law |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Laws |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10044106 |




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