A recent NY Times headline summarizes one of the biggest economic impacts of the current pandemic: “Big Tech Could Emerge From Coronavirus Crisis Stronger Than Ever.” At a time when most American citizens and businesses suffer catastrophic economic damage from the Coronavirus Recession, some...

Vorliegende Abhandlung widmet sich der Einflussnahme, welche der Europäische Gerichtshof durch Auslegung des primären und sekundären Unionsrechts auf die Effizienz der ertragsteuerlichen Behandlung grenzüberschreitender Investitionen am Binnenmarkt nimmt. In ihrer Ausgangslage steht der...

This paper measures the effective taxation of housing investments in 40 OECD member and partner countries. The paper derives both Marginal Effective Tax Rates (METRs) and Average Effective Tax Rates (AETRs), which incorporate the stream of income and taxes over the life of the housing...

We analyze the short and long-run performance of firms that were differentially affected by a new tax on dividends in the lead-up to the Global Financial Crisis. We use exogenous policy variation for firms with different legal statuses and financial year-end dates to causally identify the policy...