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Fiscal rules have become popular to limit deficits and high debt burdens in industrialized countries. A growing literature examines their impact based on aggregate fiscal performance. So far, no evidence exists on how fiscal rules influence deficit expectations of fiscal policy makers. In the...
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German multinationals’ direct investments abroad and of foreign multinationals’ investments in Germany from 1996 till 2008. A … corresponds to that of Germany. The impact of taxation on investments is negative. A ten percentage points higher corporate tax …
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We analyze the impact of tax loss treatment on the size and structure of multinational investments. Basically, two effects of tax loss treatment can be expected. First, firms make their investment decisions in the face of potential future losses. Then, the various types of conceivable loss...
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rules prevent firms from deducting excessive interest expenses from their tax base. As of 2008, Germany has severely changed …
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In Germany, R&D subsidies are an important tool to support innovation in the private sector. This paper studies the … government, the estimated average social rate of return is 34% for Germany in the period 1994 to 2011. Thereby effects on firm … decision in Germany remained remarkably stable over time, and that application costs as well as the marginal profitability of …
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German Economy 1980 to 1998. The novelty of the paper is the estimation of a time-varying NAIRU for West Germany employing …This paper is devoted to a new estimation of the non-accelerating inflation rate of unemployment (NAIRU) for the West …
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" (NAIRU) for Germany. There are quite a few obstacles to perceiving the NAIRU as an understandable and easy-to-use analytical … is made to estimate a NAIRU for Germany based on conventional Phillips curves as well as on new approaches such as using …
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estimation for 20 OECD countries from 1970 onwards. The conclusion is that the exchange rate regime as such is not relevant for …
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We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and 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...
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