Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2012

    Schuldenbremse

  2. Refereed Journal // 2012

    Reduction of the Effective Corporate Tax Burden in Romania from 1992 to 2012 and Romania’s Current Ranking among the Central and Eastern European Member States

    This article traces Romania's development to a low-tax country among the member states of the European Union by analysing the major tax law changes in corporate taxation since 1992. We compute and compare the…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-005 // 2012

    Tax and the City - A Theory of Local Tax Competition and Evidence for Germany

    In this paper we use survey responses of mayors from cities and municipalities in the German state of Baden-Württemberg to study the "true" spatial structure of local tax competition. The size of the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 12-003 // 2012

    Romania's Development to a Low-Tax Country: Effective Corporate Tax Burden in Romania from 1992 to 2010 and Romania's Current Ranking Among the Eastern European Member States

    Among the Member States of the European Union, Romania is considered to be a low tax country. This is mainly due to the fact that the Romanian corporate income tax rate of 16 per cent currently undercuts the…

  5. Non-Refereed Journal // 2012

    The Cross-border Taxation of Dividends in the Case of Individual Portfolio Investors - Issues and Possible Solutions

    So far, the field of cross-border taxation of dividends paid to individual investors in the EU Member States has not been subject to harmonisation. The differences in the Member States’ tax systems give rise to…