Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    Harnessing Deductions to Increase Tax Compliance and Formalization

    We evaluate a tax reform in Ecuador that introduced generous deductions from personal income taxes (PIT), encouraging consumers to request receipts. The reform addresses tax evasion by targeting small…

  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // forthcoming

    Measuring Democracy

  3. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    Nudging for Tax Compliance: a Meta-Analysis

    Governments increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. We synthesise the growing literature on nudging experiments using meta-analytical methods. We find that, relative to the baseline where about a…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-070 // 2025

    Inference for Batched Adaptive Experiments

    The advantages of adaptive experiments have led to their rapid adoption in economics, other fields, as well as among practitioners. However, adaptive experiments pose challenges for causal inference. This note…