Following the establishment of the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM), concerns about having a level playing field become more important due to the heterogeneity in bank taxation rules across Europe: measuring the tax burden can provide a first rough measure of the extent of heterogeneity across...

We estimate the impact of effective profit taxation on the financial leverage of corporations on the basis of a pseudo-panel constructed from corporate tax return micro data for the period 1998-2001, a period which saw the introduction of a major corporate tax reform in Germany. The financial...

This paper investigates the 2013 three-fold increase in the French dividend tax rate. Using administrative data covering the universe of firms from 2008-2017 and a quasi-experimental setting, we find that firms swiftly cut dividend payments and used this tax-induced increase in liquidity to...

Den meisten Steuersystemen liegt als Leitgedanke zwar ein synthetischer Einkommensbegriff zu Grunde, doch resultiert aus den Gesetzesvorschriften regelmäßig eine faktische Schedulierung des Einkommens. Systematisch fragwürdig wird eine solche Schedulierung dann, wenn die vorgenommene...

The Organisation for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD) recently proposed an interest barrier to fight tax base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS). We use the introduction of such an interest deductibility restriction in Germany as a quasi-experiment and find significant corporate...

Infolge der Globalisierung des Wettbewerbs und verstärkter Maßnahmen zum Abbau von Handelsbarrieren in der Europäischen Union tritt die Bedeutung von Ländergrenzen für unternehmerische Handlungen zunehmend in den Hintergrund. Dies kann zu einem erhöhten Wettbewerb in Grenzgebieten führen....

The theoretical literature suggests that when taking tax effects into account, debt ought to be preferable to equity. However, there are no uniform predictions of the size of this tax benefit (tax shield) in comparison to an opposing increasing cost of debt (especially insolvency costs). The...