Similar Search Results

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012417748

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009570576

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599018

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011789164

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003771867

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887453

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803539

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

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003364058

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 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011966873

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...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012507362