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The political cconomy of corporate tax harmonization : why do European politicians (dis)like minimum tax rates?

Osterloh, Steffen (contributor); … - 2008

Setting minimum tax rates is a well discussed way of mitigating pressure from tax competition. This paper investigates which motives shape the support for a minimum corporate tax among politicians. We make use of a unique data base: a survey among members of the European parliament. Our results...

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Total costs and budgetary effects of adaptation to climate change : an assessment for the European Union

Osberghaus, Daniel; Reif, Christiane - 2010

adaptation costs in the EU, divided by impact sectors. The findings show an expectedly large public burden in the adaptation of …

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Designing emissions trading in practice general considerations and experiences from the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS)

Heindl, Peter; Löschel, Andreas - 2012

regarding emissions trading are discussed. Currently, the largest trading scheme is the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS …. Because of its prominent role, the basic design and the process of introducing the EU scheme are reviewed in more detail …. Finally, the impact of the EU ETS on the regulated entities is analyzed based on an annual survey among German companies …

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Did the introduction of the euro lead to money illusion? : empirical evidence from Germany

Bittschi, Benjamin; Duppel, Saskia - 2015

Using the introduction of the euro as a natural experiment, we provide economy-wide evidence for money illusion based on declared donations from German administrative income tax data. Our results suggest a magnitude of the money illusion effect between 2.4% and 7.6%. Compared to previous studies...

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Carbon management : evidence from case studies of German firms under the EU ETS

Heindl, Peter; Lutz, Benjamin Johannes - 2012

This paper examines the management practices of German firms with obligations under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (EU …. The paper sheds light on management and trading practices, abatement behaviour, and the impact of the EU ETS on long … processes related to the EU ETS and to strengthen intuition for microeconomic consequences of greenhouse gas regulation in a cap …

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The German labour market reforms in a European context : a DSGE analysis

Fries, Claudia; Seymen, Atılım - 2013

While a widespread consensus exists among macroeconomists that the German labour market reforms in 2003-2005 have successfully contributed to the decline of the unemployment rate, critics claim that the reforms led to wage restraint and consequently consumption dampening accompanied by...

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The impact of monetary instruments on shock absorption in EU-countries

Müller, Claudia; Buscher, Herbert S. - 1999

The main characteristic of the implementation of the European Monetary Union (EMU) is the transition from various national currencies to the Euro, the common European currency. A final fixing of the individual bilateral exchange rates of all European countries involved in the Monetary Union...

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Real and monetary challenges to wage policy in Germany at the turn of the millennium : technical progress, globalization and European Monetary Union

Franz, Wolfgang - 1999

At the turn of the millennium three frequently cited potential causes of new challenges for wage policy in Germany are revisited in this study: skilled- biased technological progress, the increasing international integration of labor and product markets, and the monetary integration of the EMU....

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The effective average tax burden in the European Union and the USA : a computer-based calculation and comparison with the model of the European tax analyzer

Jacobs, Otto H.; Spengel, Christoph - 1999

In this paper we present a computer-based model (so-called European Tax Analyzer) for the international computation and comparison of company tax burdens. The methodology follows the forward-looking concepts for the measurement of effective average tax rates (EATR) on the basis of a model-firm....

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Effective marginal tax rates for US investors in Germany and Europe : an analysis of recent tax reforms in Germany

Spengel, Christoph - 1999

In this paper the impact of the corporate tax systems of the 15 EU-member states on the investment and the financing …) closely follow the model of King and Fullerton. There is not only a great variation among the EMTR in the EU-member states …

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