Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-38 // 2005

    IAS/IFRS in Belgium: Quantitative Analysis of the Impact on the Tax Burden of Companies

    The adoption of IAS/IFRS in the European Union is part of the European Commission’s global tax policy whose aim is to establish a coordinated corporate tax base. The paper examines the impact of an IAS/IFRS-…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-37 // 2005

    EU Company Taxation in case of a Common Tax Base

    Within the EU the relation between financial and tax accounting will be significantly influenced by the regulation adopted in June 2002 that obliges all listed companies to prepare their consolidated accounts…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-16 // 2005

    Neighborhood Influence and Political Change: Evidence from US School Districts

    This paper investigates how local jurisdictions in a federal system influence each other in the adoption of policy innovations. We look at school districts in Michigan and their participation in a public…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-12 // 2005

    Planning or Propaganda? An Evaluation of Germany’s Medium-term Budgetary Planning

    In Germany, the medium-term financial planning (“Mifrifi”) was introduced at the end of the sixties. This study scrutinizes the experience of the German Bund with more than thirty years of financial planning. …

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 05-11 // 2005

    Yardstick Competition and Policy Innovation

    A simple model of yardstick competition between jurisdictions is presented. Governments of jurisdictions face the alternative to choose between an old and a new policy with stochastic payoffs. The new policy…