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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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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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Quality versus quantity : the composition effect of corporate taxation on foreign direct investment

Becker, Johannes (contributor); Fuest, Clemens (contributor) - 2007

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Nice guys finish last : are people with higher tax morale taxed more heavily?

Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Fuest, Clemens; … - 2012

This paper provides evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of "tax morale". We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale implies a high subjective cost of evading taxes. The model predicts that "nice guys finish last": groups with higher tax morale will...

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An unemployment insurance scheme for the euro area? : a comparison of different alternatives using micro data

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2015

We analyze different options for the design of a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA). We assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric macroeconomic shocks. Running counterfactual simulations based on micro data for the period...

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Trade openness and income inequality : new empirical evidence

Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2021

We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...

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Globalization and income inequality revisited

Dorn, Florian; Fuest, Clemens; Potrafke, Niklas - 2018

This paper re-examines the link between globalization and income inequality. We use data for 140 countries over the period 1970-2014 and employ an IV approach to deal with the endogeneity of globalization measures. We find that the link between globalization and income inequality differs across...

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Minimum wage incidence : the case for Germany

Knabe, Andreas (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2008

Using data from the 2006 wave of the German Socio-Economic Panel (GSOEP), this paper analyzes how a minimum wage affects employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and aggregate income in the low-wage sector. It is shown that a statutory minimum wage of EUR 7.50 per hour would cost...

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Minimum wages and their alternatives : a critical assessment

Knabe, Andreas; Schöb, Ronnie - 2008

issues for the exemplary case of Germany that suffers from high unemployment among low-skilled workers and rising wage … in Germany, on employment, wage inequality, public expenditures, and incomes of poor households: 1) a statutory minimum …

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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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