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Sustainability of fiscal policy in the EU-15

Afonso, António - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 4 (2006) 1, pp. 34-38

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The political cconomy of corporate tax harmonization : why do European politicians (dis)like minimum tax rates?

Osterloh, Steffen (contributor); … - 2008

Setting minimum tax rates is a well discussed way of mitigating pressure from tax competition. This paper investigates which motives shape the support for a minimum corporate tax among politicians. We make use of a unique data base: a survey among members of the European parliament. Our results...

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How does EU cohesion policy work? : evaluating its effects on fiscal outcome variables

Hagen, Tobias; Mohl, Philipp - 2009

The impact of EU Cohesion Policy has mainly been evaluated with regard to its growth effects. We extend the perspective … by investigating the impact of EU Cohesion Policy on public investments and budget deficits in order to learn more about … the channels through which this policy field works. Using a dataset of 27 EU countries for the time period 1982-2006, we …

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Partisan politics in corporate tax competition

Osterloh, Steffen; Debus, Marc - 2009

This paper studies the effects of political factors, mainly partisanship, on corporate taxes in the past 30 years – a period of intensifying competitive pressure in Europe. Extending the Zodrow-Mieszkowski model by decision-makers who have ideological preferences yields the hypothesis that...

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The impact of personal and corporate taxation on capital structure choices

Overesch, Michael (contributor); Voeller, Dennis (contributor) - 2008

This paper empirically analyses whether both personal and corporate taxation have an impact on companies' capital structure decisions. We investigate the effect of the difference in taxation of debt and equity financing on capital structures. Our empirical results, based on a comprehensive panel...

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How corporate tax competition reduces personal tax revenue

Mooij, Ruud A. de; Nicodème, Gaëtan - In: CESifo DICE report : journal for institutional comparisons 6 (2008) 1, pp. 27-31

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Besteuerungsprinzipien und effektive Unternehmenssteuerbelastungen in der Europäischen Union

Elschner, Christina; Heckemeyer, Jost H.; Spengel, Christoph - 2009

Weise detailliert quantifizierten Besteuerungsregime zeigt unter anderem, dass in der EU das Prinzip der …

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A common corporate tax base for Europe : an impact assessment of the draft council directive on a CC(C)TB

Spengel, Christoph; Ortmann-Babel, Martina; Zinn, Benedikt - 2012

After intensive and extensive preparation, the European Commission released the long-awaited proposal for a Council Directive on a Common Consolidated Corporate Tax Base (CCCTB) on March 16, 2011. In the context of the Europe 2020 Strategy, major objectives of the proposed CCCTB are the...

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Tax competition in Europe : Europe in competition with other world regions?

Streif, Frank - 2015 - This version: 16 November 2015

whether the decline in corporate tax levels in Europe is mainly driven by tax competition between EU member states or by …

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Sovereign risk premia : the link between fiscal rules and stability culture

Heinemann, Friedrich; Osterloh, Steffen; Kalb, Alexander - 2013 - This version: March 2013

There is a growing empirical literature studying whether fiscal rules reduce borrowing costs. Nevertheless, it remains an open question whether these rules are effective genuinely or just because they mirror fiscal preferences of politicians and voters. In our analysis of European bond spreads,...

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