Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-029 // 2011

    What Does Ex-post Evidence Tell us About the Output Effects of Future Tax Reforms?

    As a result of the global economic recession there is renewed interest in the effects of taxation on economic performance: many countries attempted to use tax cuts as a means to stimulate aggregate demand and…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2011

    Capital Structure Choice and Company Taxation: A Meta-Study

    This paper provides a quantitative review of the empirical literature on the tax impact on corporate debt financing. Synthesizing the evidence from 46 previous studies, we find that this impact is substantial.…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-024 // 2011

    Taxation, R&D Tax Incentives and Patent Application in Europe

    Innovation triggers positive effects on productivity and growth. It is therefore important to know whether taxation has an impact on research, development and innovation and whether taxation can be used as an…

  4. Refereed Journal // 2011

    FDI and Taxation: A Meta-Study

    In this paper we extend former meta-analyses on FDI and taxation in three ways. First, we add 16 recent publications. Second, we code additional metaregressor variables addressing important issues in research…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 11-020 // 2011

    Politicians' Opinions on Rivals in the Competition for Firms: An Empirical Analysis of Reference Points Near a Border

    Many studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) fiscal policies concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single region. These works usually disregard possible extra-regional effects.…