Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Balanced Budget Rules and Fiscal Outcomes: Evidence from Historical Constitutions

    This paper studies the reduced-form effects of constitutional-level balanced budget rules (BBRs) on scal outcomes. Using historical data for a large set of countries dating back to the nineteenth …

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-036 // 2018

    Cross-Border Tax Evasion After the Common Reporting Standard: Game Over?

    We study the short term effect of the first global multilateral standard for the automatic exchange of information (AEOI), the so called Common Reporting Standard (CRS), on cross border tax evasion. Our sample…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-035 // 2018

    A Call to Action: From Evolution to Revolution on the Common Reporting Standard

    As a result of technical development and globalization, investing abroad has become much more accessible, and thus, an important channel for transferring wealth and income to offshore locations with the aim to…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Dividendenstripping durch Cum/Ex- und Cum/Cum-Geschäfte – Analyse aktueller Entwicklungen

    Cum/Ex-Geschäfte mit Leerverkauf bezweckten eine mehrfacheErstattung von nur einmal gezahlter Kapitalertragsteuer. Daswar illegal und ist mittlerweile Gegenstand zahlreicher staats-anwaltschaftlicher…