Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 18-004 // 2018

    Tax Influence on Financial Structures of M&As

    In this paper, I investigate the influence of tax incentives on the financial structures of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) conducted by multinational entities (MNE). Previous research has already found…

  2. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Overlapping Political Budget Cycles

    We advance the literature on political budget cycles by testing for cycles in expenditures for elections to the legislative and the executive branches. Using municipal data, we identify cycles independently for…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2018

    Do Fiscal Rules Constrain Fiscal Policy? A Meta-Regression-Analysis

    We implement a meta-regression-analysis for the budgetary impact of numerical fiscal rules based on 30 studies published in the last decade. The existing empirical evidence points to a constraining effect of…

  4. Expertises // 2017

    Analysis of US Corporate Tax Reform Proposals and their Effects for Europe and Germany

    The project deals with the current US corporate tax reform proposal. Despite details being subject to change, a reduction in corporate tax rate and abolishment of the worldwide income system seems most likely.…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 17-066 // 2017

    On the Interdependency of Profit Shifting Channels and the Effectiveness of Anti-Avoidance Legislation

    The issue of base erosion and profit shifting has been on the international policy agenda for several years now. The aim of this paper is to examine how firms adjust their profit shifting mechanisms in a…