As a result of the global economic recession there is renewed interest in the effects of taxation on economic performance: many countries attempted to use tax cuts as a means to stimulate aggregate demand and…
This paper provides a quantitative review of the empirical literature on the tax impact on corporate debt financing. Synthesizing the evidence from 46 previous studies, we find that this impact is substantial.…
Innovation triggers positive effects on productivity and growth. It is therefore important to know whether taxation has an impact on research, development and innovation and whether taxation can be used as an…
In this paper we extend former meta-analyses on FDI and taxation in three ways. First, we add 16 recent publications. Second, we code additional metaregressor variables addressing important issues in research…
Many studies of spatial policy interdependence in (local) fiscal policies concentrate on the relations between jurisdictions within a single region. These works usually disregard possible extra-regional effects.…
Governments are subject to a number of constraints that affect their ability to set fiscal policy optimally. This paper considers two. Firstly, governments are inevitably imperfectly informed about the…