Projects of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.06.2016 – 31.03.2017

    Development of an Effective Tax Rate Measure for the European Tax Analyzer

    The European Tax Analyzer is a simulation model to compute forward-looking effective tax burdens. Up to now, the target values of the European Tax Analyzer are reported in absolute numbers and indicate the …

  2. Project // 01.04. – 31.12.2016

    Benchmark study: Tax attractiveness for digital business models

    The digitalization of the economy is considered the most important development since the industrial revolution. The economic locational factors for digital business models are thus of high relevance for policy…

  3. Project // 01.04. – 30.09.2016

    Public Sector Reform – How the EU Budget Is Used to Encourage it

    The general objective of the study is to better understand both the current role and the full potential of the EU budget in fostering public sector reforms in the Member States.

  4. Project // 01.04.2016 – 31.03.2019

    SEEK Project 2016: European Network on Better Institutions – ZEW ENBI

    The purpose of the SEEK project "European Network on Better Institutions – ZEW ENBI" is to establish a network of European research institutes under the direction of ZEW. This network shall carry out applied …

  5. Project // 01.03.2016 – 31.01.2018

    BAK Taxation Index 2016/2017

    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.…

  6. Project // 01.03.2016 – 28.02.2017

    International Profit Shifting: Its main Channels and Countermeasures

    This project analyses in detail some aspects of the current taxation system and determines a few ways in which multinational enterprises might use its loopholes for tax-planning purposes. For example, it is…

  7. 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 …

  8. Project // 01.02.2016 – 30.09.2017

    The Impact of Fiscal Councils on Budgetary Policy

    In recent decades, industrialised countries exhibited a tremendous increase in public debt reaching levels which are considered as unsustainable. Already in the past decades, legislators in multiple…

  9. 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…