Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-025 // 2021

    Monetary Incentives and the Contagion of Unethical Behavior

    We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-024 // 2021

    Collaborative Tax Evasion in the Provision of Services to Consumers – a Field Experiment

    We conduct a field experiment with sellers of home-improvement services on two German online markets. We take the role of consumers and vary whether we request an invoice for the delivery of the service. In a…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-022 // 2021

    Taxes and Business Philanthropy in Armenia

    The majority of countries around the world provide tax incentives for business philanthropy. However, little is known about the responsiveness of businesses to this tax treatment. This paper expands on this…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-020 // 2021

    How Does the Evolution of R&D Tax Incentives Schemes Impact Their Effectiveness? Evidence From a Meta-Analysis

    A growing interest in R&D tax incentive policies has given rise to a large number of evaluations, which provide contrasting results about their effectiveness. Our meta- analysis aims to explain the heterogeneity…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-019 // 2021

    Reporting Behavior and Transparency in European Banks’ Country-by-Country Reports

    The public CbCR requirement for EU financial institutions leaves leeway to the reporting firms as regards the calculating and presentation of the data. Based on a sample of CbCRs published by EU-headquartered…

  6. Expertises // 2021

    Effective Tax Levels Using the Devereux/Griffith Methodology - Update 2020

    The aim of this study is to determine effective tax rates for the 27 EU countries as well as UK, Switzerland, Norway, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, USA, Canada and Japan. The calculation of domestic and…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-013 // 2021

    Quantifying the OECD BEPS Indicators – an Update to BEPS Action 11

    In its 2015 Final Report on “Measuring and Monitoring BEPS, Action 11”, the OECD introduced six indicators to quantify and evaluate base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) activity over time. In this study, we…

  8. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-012 // 2021

    Using Machine Learning for Measuring Democracy: An Update

    We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update of the Machine Learning indicator of Gründler and Krieger (2016, European Journal of…