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This paper analyses the effectiveness of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer. It employs a unique firm-level dataset of German manufacturers combining financial statements with firm-specific information about credit market restrictions. The results show that approximately 20 per...
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Recent data on corporate tax losses presents a puzzle this paper attempts to explain: the ratio of losses to positive income was much higher around the recession of 2001 than in earlier recessions, even those of greater severity. Using a comprehensive sample of U.S. corporation tax returns for...
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This paper analyses some fiscal aspects of mortgage debt in the EU. It first describes the main fiscal instruments that governments use to affect mortgage-financed home-ownership. In the empirical part, real mortgage debt growth is analysed for 15 EU countries using pooled regressions. Fiscal...
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Diese wirtschaftsethische Reflexion geht angesichts einer sehr lautschrillen öffentlichen Debatte der Frage nach, ob ein profitabler Weltkonzern wie Siemens Betriebsstandorte in strukturschwachen Regionen Ostdeutschlands schließen darf. Dem die Öffentlichkeit dominierenden Wahrnehmungsmuster...
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In Germany, the tax loss carry-forward of corporations significantly increased over the last decade. At the same time … puzzle is that stricter loss offset restrictions have been introduced in recent years. I use a newly developed micro …, distributional breakdowns concerning the amounts of tax loss carry-forward and the effects of loss offset restrictions are provided …
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In order to calculate the burden of a comprehensive and progressive income tax falling on a certain income source, an apportionment scheme for the entire tax burden has to be chosen. This raises the question of how to deal with losses, which is relevant for Germany in view of the heavy losses...
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valuation in the presence of taxation. However, the known models usually assume a perfect loss offset. If this assumption is … - under specific conditions - at a later point in time. Firm values may be considerably lower under imperfect loss offset. …
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This paper empirically analyses whether both personal and corporate taxation have an impact on companies' capital structure decisions. We investigate the effect of the difference in taxation of debt and equity financing on capital structures. Our empirical results, based on a comprehensive panel...
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