Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-037 // 2019

    Tax Law and the Transfer of Start-up Losses: A European Overview and Categorization

    Most of the European Member States employ anti-loss trafficking rules. They aim to prevent the acquisition of mere corporate shells with high tax loss carryforwards for the tax asset to be utilized in profitable…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2019

    Buyers' Role in Innovation Procurement

    What is the impact of buyers on the performance of innovation procurement? In which phase of the procurement process are buyers most crucial and why? We address these questions by exploiting a novel…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Increasing tax transparency: investor reactions to the country-by-country reporting requirement for EU financial institutions

    We employ an event study methodology to investigate the capital market reaction to the surprising political decision to adopt a public country-by-country reporting (CbCR) obligation for EU financial…