We study the impact of transfer pricing rules on sales prices, firms’ organizational structure, andconsumers’ utility within a two-country monopolistic competition model featuring source-basedprofit taxes that differ across countries. Firms can either become multinationals, i.e., they serve...

The discussion about income versus consumption as the ideal tax base looks backon a long history. In recent years, the debate about income versus consumption as the bettertax base reemerged in the United States (2002) and in Germany (2006). In view of the longhistory of the debate, it is...

This paper investigates whether the size of multinationals’ real investments ina high-tax country is affected by profit shifting activities. A simple theoretical analysisshows that tax rates abroad impact the cost of capital in the presence of profit shiftingactivities of multinational...

Using a ¯rm-level panel data set I assess whether dynamic models of in-vestment provide an empirically fruitful framework for analyzing tax e®ectson changes in capital stock. In particular I estimate a one-step error correc-tion model (ECM) complementing the usual estimation of a distributed...

This paper argues that corruption patterns are endogenous to political structures. Thus, corruption can be systemic and planned rather than decentralized and coincidental. In an economic system without law or property rights, a kleptocratic state may arise as a predatory hierarchy from a state...

Wie könnten Demokratisierungsprozesse weltweit wirksamer gefördert werden alsbisher? Einige Autoren schlagen zu diesem Zweck bilaterale Verträge über einenTausch von Entwicklungshilfe als Gegenleistung für institutionelle Reformen inRichtung Demokratie vor. Aus der Perspektive der...

The construction industry is important for Chinese rural to urban migrants. Over 90%of urban construction workers are rural migrants, and over a third of all rural migrantswork in construction. The construction industry is not only particularly important, butis also different from other...

Die Innenministerkonferenz der Länder hat sich für eine grundlegende Reform desGemeindehaushaltsrechts ausgesprochen. Absicht der Reform ist die Abkehr von derverrichtungsorientierten Steuerung der Verwaltung, hin zu einer ergebnisorientiertenSteuerung. Das neue kommunale Haushalts- und...

Dieser Beitrag untersucht die Möglichkeiten der Bewertung von Kunst- undKulturgegenständen im neuen doppischen Finanzwesen der Kommunen im Kontextzum Zweck der Bilanzierung und schließt mit einem Modellvorschlag zur Ermittlungdes Erhaltungsaufwandes. Die ergebnisorientierte Steuerung und die...

This paper explores implications of climate change for fiscal policy by assessing theimpact of large scale extreme weather events on changes in public budgets. We applyalternative measures for large scale extreme weather events and conclude that thebudgetary impact of such events ranges between...