Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. Expertises // 2019

    Evaluierung von Steuervergünstigungen II - Teilbericht B

    Tax benefits (or "tax expenditures") are important, broadly applicable and potentially efficient instruments for creating incentives for private activities and for promoting numerous policy objectives (for…

  2. Expertises // 2019

    Evaluierung von Steuervergünstigungen II - Teilbericht A

    Tax benefits (or "tax expenditures") are important, broadly applicable and potentially efficient instruments for creating incentives for private activities and for promoting numerous policy objectives (for…

  3. Expertises // 2019

    Evaluierung von Steuervergünstigungen II - Ergebnisüberblick

    Tax benefits (or "tax expenditures") are important, broadly applicable and potentially efficient instruments for creating incentives for private activities and for promoting numerous policy objectives (for…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-042 // 2019

    Can European Banks’ Country-by-Country Reports Reveal Profit Shifting? An Analysis of the Information Content of EU Banks’ Disclosures

    We create a novel database of hand-collected information from the country-by-country reports (CbCRs) of more than 100 multinational bank groups headquartered in the EU for 2014-2016. We compare this new dataset…

  5. Refereed Journal // 2019

    Linking savings behavior, confidence and individual feedback: A field experiment in Ethiopia

    In this paper we investigate behavioral constraints to savings among smallholder farmers in rural Ethiopia. Increasing savings by overcoming such behavioral constraints has been documented to have positive…

  6. 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…

  7. 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…