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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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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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The role of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer

Büttner, Thiess; Fuest, Clemens - 2009

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...

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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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Corporate tax Reform and foreign direct investment in Germany : evidence from firm-level data

Becker, Johannes (contributor); Fuest, Clemens (contributor) - 2006

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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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Does expert information affect citizens' attitudes toward corona policies? : evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, … - 2021

Information provided by experts is widely believed to play a key role in shaping attitudes towards policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs...

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Asymmetric information renders minimum wages less harmful

Schöb, Ronnie; Thum, Marcel - 2009

We show that a minimum wage introduced in the presence of asymmetric information about worker productivities will lead to lower unemployment levels than predicted by the standard labour market model with heterogeneous labour and symmetric information. -- minimum wages ; unemployment ; asymmetric...

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Source versus residence based taxation with international mergers and acquisitions

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2009

This paper analyses tax competition and tax coordination in a model where capital flows occur in the form of mergers and acquisitions, rather than greenfield investment. In this framework, we show that differences in residence based taxes do not necessarily distort international ownership...

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Tax progression under collective wage bargaining and individual effort determination

Koskela, Erkki (contributor); Schöb, Ronnie (contributor) - 2007

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