Projects of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.02. – 31.10.2016

    Update 2016 of the Country Index for Family Enterprises

    In the year 2006, ZEW had developed the Country Index for Family Enterprises on behalf of the Stiftung Familienunternehmen. The objective of this index is an international comparison of investment locations …

  2. Project // 15.01.2016 – 31.03.2017

    R&D Tax Incentives – Study on Design Options and Impacts

    This project focuses on four topics:

    1. Models for designing an R&D tax incentive scheme for Germany with a particular focus on avoiding non-intended effects such as deadweight and re-declaration.
    2. Alternative funding…
  3. Project // 01.01.2016 – 30.09.2017

    Structure of Tax Systems in Europe – an Analysis of the Developments in the Member States of the European Union (and other Countries)

    The goal of the European Single Market has led to standardization in several areas within the European Union during the last years. However, this is not true for the tax systems that remain part of the autonomous…

  4. Project // 01.01.2016 – 30.04.2017

    Inverse December Fever: Tax avoidance behaviour of Austrian SME

    This project exploits rich administrative tax-return data on the population of Austrian small and medium enterprises and their owners to study the behavioral responses of firms to taxes. The preliminary results…

  5. Project // 28.10.2015 – 28.10.2016

    The Effects of Fundamental Tax Reforms on Effective Taxation

    Corporate tax systems in Europe usually discriminate between debt and equity by treating interest payments as a deductible expense and equity returns as a reward for company's owners. This is called the…

  6. Project // 01.09.2015 – 31.08.2016

    Research support of the independent advisory board of the German stability council

    ZEW researchers provided research support to the independent advisory board of the German stability council. They assist the council organizationally and contentwise with the preparation of its biannual…

  7. Project // 01.08.2015 – 30.06.2016

    Reforms for More Fiscal Responsibility of Euro Area Countries and the Potential of Accountability Bonds

    The strong alignment of long-term bond yields of euro countries, which actually have different degrees of credit-worthiness, is evidence for the fact that meanwhile investors assume at least a partial factual…

  8. Project // 01.08.2015 – 31.07.2016

    Analysis of Tax Policy and Tax Administration: Evidence from Armenian Firm-Level Data

    Using panel data on the population of corporate tax-returns of Armenian firms, this project studies the behavioral response of firms to three size-dependent regulations: i) a tax-notch created by the value …

  9. Project // 17.07.2015 – 16.07.2016

    The Effect of Inflation Rates and Interest Rates on Forward-Looking Effective Tax Rates

    On behalf of the European Commission, ZEW computes measures of corporate effective taxation in Europe based on the Devereux-Griffith (DG) methodology on a yearly basis. For the computation of the effective tax…