Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-019 // 2014

    M&A and the Tax Benefits of Debt-Financing

    The deductibility of interest expenses from the corporate tax base creates an incentive for acquiring companies to finance a takeover with debt. In this paper, I investigate the impact of profit taxation on the…

  2. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2014

    Ökonomische Aspekte der Staatsentschuldung

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-015 // 2014

    Transparency in Financial Reporting: Is Country-by-Country Reporting Suitable to Combat International Profit Shifting?

    Aggressive tax planning efforts of highly profitable multinational companies (Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS)) have recently become the subject of intense public debate. As a response, several…

  4. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2014

    Staatsverschuldung

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 14-006 // 2014

    Changing Forces of Gravity: How the Crisis Affected International Banking

    The global financial crisis has brought a rather unprecedented period of expansion of banks’ international financial assets and liabilities to an end. In response to the crisis, banks have decreased their…