We estimate the elasticity of enrollment into higher education with respect to the amount of means tested student aid (BAfoeG) provided by the federal government using the German Socioeconomic Panel (SOEP). Potential student aid is derived on the basis of a detailed tax-benefit microsimulation...

We estimate the elasticity of corporate taxable income with respect to the effectivecorporate tax rate on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return microdata for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate taxreform in Germany....