Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEWnews English edition // 2012

    03/04 - 2012

    • Environmentally Friendly Process Innovations Encourage Hiring of New Employees
    • Falling Profit Margins in E-commerce as Product Life Cycles Lengthen
    • Business Tax Rates Remain Low, Despite the Crisis
    • In-house…
  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2012

    Schuldenbremse

  3. 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…

  4. 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…

  5. 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…