This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their...

This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their...

This paper estimates the response of corporate tax revenues to the business cycle fluctuations and calculates a heterogeneous asymmetry in the tax revenue responses between booms and recessions using a new index of loss offset generosity provisions. I find strong short-run contemporaneous impact...

This paper studies the performance of interest limita- tion rules during business cycles. It employs register data on Finnish affiliates of multinational enterprises (MNEs) to study both thin-capitalization rules (TCRs) and earnings-stripping rules (ESRs). Both types of rules are found to become...

Das Handwerk gilt in Hinblick auf den Umsatz und die Beschäftigung als Konjunkturstabilisator. Dieser Einschätzung widersprechen allerdings verschiedene wissenschaftliche Untersuchungen. Welche Kräfte hier prozyklisch und welche antizyklisch wirken, lässt sich durch eine...