Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

We empirically investigate the effect of procurement oversight on contract outcomes. In particular, we stress a distinction between public and private oversight: the former is a set of bureaucratic checks…

• The OECD Needs Tougher Standards for Tackling Tax Avoidance
• Economists Recommend Policies to Encourage a Sense of European Identity
• Q&A: How Can We Ensure Prosperity for All in the Digital Age?
• Much More Than a…

Does the administrative organization of police affect crime? In answering this question, we focus on the reorganization of local police agencies. Specifically, we study the effects police force reallocation via…

Does a more competent public bureaucracy contribute to better economic outcomes? We address this question in the context of the US federal procurement of services and works by combining contract-level data…

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 …