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The role of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer

Büttner, Thiess; Fuest, Clemens - 2009

This paper analyses the effectiveness of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer. It employs a unique firm-level dataset of German manufacturers combining financial statements with firm-specific information about credit market restrictions. The results show that approximately 20 per...

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Does Germany collect revenue from taxing capital income?

Becker, Johannes (contributor); Fuest, Clemens (contributor) - 2005

losses. This paper investigates the revenue effects of a consumption tax reform in Germany. Our results suggest that the …

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The pass-through of temporary VAT rate cuts : evidence from German supermarket retail

Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2021 - First draft: November 2020, this version: June 2021

identify the causal price effects, we compare the development of prices in Germany to those in Austria. Our findings indicate …

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Do higher corporate taxes reduce wages? : micro evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2013 - First version: July 2011, This version: May 3, 2013

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

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Corporate profit shifting and the role of tax havens : evidence from German country-by-country reporting data

Fuest, Clemens; Hugger, Felix; Neumeier, Florian - 2021

annual tax base loss for Germany amounts to EUR 5.4 billion. Adding estimates of profit shifting by multinationals not … covered by the CbC data yields an overall estimate for profits shifted out of Germany to tax havens of EUR 19.1 billion per … year, corresponding to 4.3% of the profits reported by these firms in Germany. This implies a tax revenue loss due to …

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Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? : evidence from the German housing market

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Krolage, Carla; … - 2021

This paper examines the effects of real estate transfer taxes (RETT) on property prices using a rich micro dataset of roughly 17 million German properties for the period from 2005 to 2019. We exploit a 2006 constitutional reform that allows states to set their own RETT rates, leading to frequent...

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Expected effects of the US tax reform on other countries : global and local survey evidence

Boumans, Dorine; Fuest, Clemens; Krolage, Carla; … - 2019

companies. The effects on investment in Germany are ambiguous: While some firms substitute between investment locations, others …

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Tax cuts starve the beast! : evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019

The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...

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Does expert information affect citizens' attitudes toward corona policies? : evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, … - 2021

Information provided by experts is widely believed to play a key role in shaping attitudes towards policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs...

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Eine beschäftigungsfreundliche Reform der 620-DM-Arbeitsverhältnisse

Fuest, Clemens; Huber, Bernd - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 78 (1998) 11, pp. 645-651

Gegenwärtig wird eine Abschaffung bzw. Einschränkung der 620-DM-Beschäftigungsverhältnisse diskutiert. Dr. Clemens Fuest und Professor Bernd Huber analysieren die möglichen Auswirkungen für den Arbeitsmarkt und das Sozialsystem und schlagen alternativ eine beschäftigungsfreundliche Reform...

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