We estimate the impact of effective profit taxation on the financial leverage ofcorporations on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for theperiod 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany.The financial...

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....

We evaluate the effect of the federal students’ financial assistance scheme (BAfoeG) on enrolment rates into higher education by exploiting the exogenous variation introduced through a discrete shift in the repayment regulations. Supported students had to repay the full loan until 1990....