Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Unternehmensbesteuerung und Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 16-015 // 2016

    Corporate Taxation and Location of Intangible Assets: Patents vs. Trademarks

    Numerous empirical studies have analysed the influence of corporate taxation on the location of intangible assets within a company group. However, the previous literature has rather focused on studying the…

  2. ZEWnews // 2016

    01/02 - 2016

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  3. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 16-013 // 2016

    Fiscal Competition and Public Debt

    The existing theoretical literature on fiscal competition has to a large extent ignored the role of government debt as a determinant of taxes and productive public spending. We develop a simple model of fiscal…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 16-008 // 2016

    Book-Tax Conformity and Reporting Behavior - A Quasi-experiment

    We examine how a comprehensive change in book-tax conformity affects firms' reporting behavior. To this end, we exploit a Reform Act as a quasi-natural experiment which implied a decrease in book-tax conformity…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 16-007 // 2016

    Taxing Away M&A: The Effect of Corporate Capital Gains Taxes on Acquisition Activity

    Taxing capital gains is an important obstacle to the efficient allocation of resources because it imposes a transaction cost on the vendor which locks in appreciated assets by raising the vendor's reservation…