Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-053 // 2019

    Collusion Through Market Sharing Agreements: Evidence from Quebec‘s Road Paving Market

    I study a case of market sharing agreements to provide evidence of coordination between colluding firms on the degree to which they compete against each other (henceforth referred to as head-to-head competition)…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-051 // 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…

  3. Discussion and Working Paper // 2019

    Policy Instruments for a Crisis-Proof European Union

    Although numerous euro area reforms have been carried out in the last decade, fostering economic crisis resilience and convergence among Member States remains high on the agenda. This policy brief draws on…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 19-046 // 2019

    The Political Economy of Multilateral Lending to European Regions

    We study the political economy of allocation decisions within a major state investment bank. Our focus is the European Investment Bank (EIB) – “The Bank of the EU” – which is the largest multilateral lending…

  5. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // 2019

    Europäische Investitionsbank

  6. Expertises // 2019

    Evaluierung von Steuervergünstigungen II - Teilbericht E

    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…

  7. Expertises // 2019

    Evaluierung von Steuervergünstigungen II - Teilbericht D

    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…

  8. Expertises // 2019

    Evaluierung von Steuervergünstigungen II - Teilbericht C

    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…