business investment. To promote economic convergence of Eastern and Western Germany after reunification, bonus depreciation tax … control group, we address the question if and to what extent these investment tax incentives boosted investment. In line with … were cut back in 1997. Moreover, there was a significant reduction in building investment in the year after the expiration …

We contribute to the empirical literature on the relationship between corporate taxes and investment. We exploit the … capital spending of Belgian corporations, we focus on the indirect effect of taxes on investment via their impact on free cash …-flow. We use the systematic variation of the cash-flow sensitivity of investment between small and medium versus large firms to …