Projects of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2015 – 30.04.2017

    Tax determinants of corporate charitable giving

    Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) will become increasingly important for business organizations. An important tool for CSR strategies are enterprise donations. Thus, the goal of this…

  2. Project // 01.12.2014 – 30.09.2018

    The Optimal Allocation of Tasks Between the EU and its Member States: Who Can Do what Better in Europe?

    The debate on the competences between the EU and its Member States has risen in line with the most recent financial and debt crisis. While some supporters of the EU argue that its competences are still too…

  3. Project // 01.09.2014 – 29.02.2016

    Tax Accounting and Corporate Decision Making

    The German Accounting Law Modernization Act (BilMoG) of the year 2010 has been one of the most important reform acts in Germany in the last years and has constituted a change in paradigm with regard to the …

  4. Project // 01.09.2014 – 29.02.2016

    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…

  5. Project // 06.06. – 31.12.2014

    Reform Options for the German Fiscal Equalization

    This study, based on the insights from the public finance literature, is to identify the key deficits of the German fiscal equalization system. The state of the literature on key questions and controversies will…

  6. Project // 01.06.2014 – 01.06.2015

    Global Developments of Tax Structures: Consequences for the Size and the Distribution of Tax Burdens as a Function of Business Characteristics and Special Regimes of SME Taxation

    Tax administrations in several European countries recently introduced special tax regimes for small and medium-sized enterprises (SME). Competitive disadvantages as well as SME’s particular im-portance for …

  7. Project // 01.06.2014 – 31.05.2016

    The Case-Law of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in the Area of Direct Taxation – An Interdisciplinary (Political, Legal, and Economic) Analysis

    The decisions of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) have impacted the design of the EU member states’ national (individual and corporate) tax systems in several areas (e.g. exit taxation, thin capitalization…

  8. Project // 01.04.2014 – 30.09.2015

    SEEK Project 2014: Fiscal Governance and Adjustments under Crisis Conditions

    One uncontroversial conclusion from four years of European debt crisis is the need for a general overhaul of fiscal governance. However, any reforms must be based on a sound understanding of the (fiscal) …

  9. Project // 01.03.2014 – 31.01.2016

    BAK Taxation Index 2014/2015

    In the context of a growing international economic integration, taxation becomes a more and more central factor in the competition of regions and countries for international investment and skilled employees. …