Zum 1.1.2008 führte die Bundesregierung die begünstigte Besteuerung thesaurierter Gewinne für Einzelunternehmen und Personengesellschaften in Deutschland ein. Eine ähnliche Regelung existiert bereits seit 2004 in Österreich. Dieser Beitrag vergleicht die Investitionswirkungen der beiden...

In this paper, we use an exogenous variation in tax regulations to analyze the impact of bonus depreciation programs on business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax incentives were granted for investments in...

This study is the first empirical analysis to investigate the relationship between the investment behaviour of firms resident in Germany and the empirically determined marginal tax rates developed by John R. Graham. It is based on the Bundesbank's corporate balance sheet statistics for the...