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quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has …
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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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This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities. Administrative linked employer-employee data allows estimating heterogeneous worker and firm effects. We set up a general theoretical framework showing that corporate taxes can have a...
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Current political discussions in Germany and other European countries illustrate the importance accorded to revenue and …
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Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...
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Current political discussions in Germany and other European countries illustrate the importance accorded to revenue and …
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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 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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