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...

The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of three stages, was welcomed by the public as a step towards unleashing lurking growth potentials. Nonetheless, in the course of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the...

In dieser Studie setzt sich der Kronberger Kreis kritisch mit der Frage auseinander, inwieweit die Erbschaftsteuer auf eine regelkonforme Gesetzesgrundlage aufbaut und welche Änderungen vorgenommen werden könnten, diese Grundlage effizienter und fairer zu gestalten.Gesamtwirtschaftlich...

The idea of fiscal decentralisation has become increasingly fashionable world-wide. But every country has unique features of the intergovernmental fiscal system. In general municipal expenditures are rapidly growing in European countries. On the other hand local tax increases are not easily...