Countries around the world have, over recent years, introduced transfer pricing regulations to constrain multinational profit shifting from high-tax to lower-tax affiliates through strategic mis-pricing of intra-firm trade. In this paper, we rely on rich administrative firm-level trade data for...

Over recent decades, countries around the world have introduced transfer pricing regulations to constrain tax-motivated strategic mis-pricing of intra-firm trade. While the literature has paid some attention to studying the effectiveness of the provisions in limiting mis-pricing behavior, work...

We empirically assess international corporate tax avoidance by strategic location of innovative output. The analysis draws on the universe of patent applications to the European Patent Office linked with data on multinational entities (MNEs) in Europe. Four findings emerge: Firstly, patent...

The purpose of this paper is to assess intergenerational occupational mobility in Germany. Using data from the Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP), we find a high persistence of occupational choices across fathers and children. To separate effects related to parental advice and influence (nurture) from...

Recent years have seen an unprecedented increase in the provision of R&D tax incentives. A growing empirical literature suggests that R&D tax incentives are instrumental in raising domestic R&D activity. In policy debates this finding is often interpreted to lend support to the notion that R&D...

Existing evidence shows that R&D tax incentives boost countries' private sector R&D. As multinational enterprises (MNEs) account for nearly all private sector innovations, it is unclear, however, whether firms engage in genuinely new R&D or whether R&D is reallocated across borders. Drawing on...