Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-013 // 2019

    Fiscal Policy and the Assessment of Output Gaps in Real Time: An Exercise in Risk Management

    Fiscal policymakers are expected to conduct countercyclical policies to mitigate cyclical fluctuations of output, but the assessment of cyclical conditions in real time is subject to considerable uncertainty.…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-010 // 2019

    Taxation in the Digital Economy – Recent Policy Developments and the Question of Value Creation

    The paper reviews the evidence on the challenges of digitalization for direct (corporate profit) and indirect (consumption) taxation. Based on both anecdotal and empirical evidence, we evaluate ongoing…

  3. ZEW policy brief No. 19-02 // 2019

    Slow Recoveries Through Fiscal Austerity – New Insights in the Effects of Fiscal Austerity

    Several European countries such as Spain, Portugal, and Greece implemented austerity programs to cope with the government-debt crisis in the aftermath of the Great Recession: They increased taxes on consumption,…

  4. Expertises // 2019

    Effective Tax Levels Using the Devereux/Griffith Methodology - Update 2018

    The aim of this study is to determine effective tax rates for the 28 EU countries as well as Switzerland, Norway, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, USA, Canada and Japan. The calculation of domestic and…

  5. ZEW policy brief No. 19-01 // 2019

    United We Stand? – Survey of French, German and Italian Parliamentarians on EU and EMU Reforms

    The "multicrisis" of European integration from the euro debt crisis through the migration dispute to Brexit has kicked-off a comprehensive reform debate. This debate covers the evolution of European Monetary…