This paper estimates the effects of tax incentives on charitable contributions in the UK, using the universe of self-assessment income tax returns between 2005 and 2013. We exploit variation from a large reform in 2010 to estimate intensive and extensive-margin tax-price elasticities of giving....

La disponibilidad de una base de datos en el ámbito de empresa que sea representativa del sector productivo de una economía a escala agregada es una condición necesaria para realizar tanto análisis de política económica como investigación económica fiables en múltiples áreas. En este...

Este documento investiga los efectos de supervisar los rastros de información generados por las actividades de las empresas con el objetivo de mejorar el cumplimiento de sus obligaciones tributarias. A partir de la variación cuasiexperimental proporcionada por la Unidad de Grandes...

En este artículo utilizamos variación geográfica plausiblemente exógena en la reducción de la demanda interna causada por la Gran Recesión en España para documentar la existencia de una robusta relación causal negativa a nivel de empresa entre cambios provocados por la demanda en las...

En este artículo se estudia cómo reacciona la renta gravable de los contribuyentes españoles ante cambios en los tipos marginales del IRPF, utilizando como principal fuente de identifi cación la variación proporcionada por tres grandes reformas del impuesto introducidas a lo largo del...

This paper provides a simple but general theoretical framework for analyzing simultaneous vertical and horizontal competition in excise taxes, which includes several previous contributions as special cases. It allows for both elastic individual demand for the taxed good, and cross-border...

This paper provides a legal and economic analysis of the European Commission's recent proposals for reforming the application of VAT to financial services, with particular focus on their 'third pillar', under which firms would be allowed to opt in to taxation on exempt insurance and financial...

This paper explores the causes and consequences of the remarkable rise of the value added tax (VAT), asking what has shaped its adoption and, in particular, whether it has proved an especially effective form of taxation. It is first shown that a tax innovation, such as the introduction of a VAT,...

This paper investigates whether OECD countries compete with each other over corporation taxes, and whether such competition can explain the fall in statutory tax rates in the 1980s and 1990s. We develop a model in which multinational firms choose their capital stock in response to an effective...

This paper considers a class of two-player dynamic games in which each player controls a one-dimensional variable which we interpret as a level of cooperation. In the base model, there is an irreversibility constraint stating that this variable can never be reduced, only increased. It otherwise...