"Lines" in the tax system are demarcations of goods into different tax rate categories; tax rates may change discontinuously at a line. Geographic borders are a specific example of a line in the tax system. Using the example of geographic borders, I demonstrate how the permeability of the line...

The Government of India initiated a program in 1994 to promote manufacturing in districts designated as backward. The way the backward districts were identified enables us to employ a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the impacts of the program. We find that the program's 5-year tax...

The Government of India initiated a program in 1994 to promote manufacturing in districts designated as backward. The way the backward districts were identified enables us to employ a regression discontinuity design to evaluate the impacts of the program. We find that the program's 5-year tax...

The series of events from March this year, with Cyprus in the spotlight created a lot of debate around the status of the “tax havens”, Cyprus itself being for a long time nominated as one of them. Yet, the latest report of The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reveals the...

The series of events from March this year, with Cyprus in the spotlight created a lot of debate around the status of the “tax havens”, Cyprus itself being for a long time nominated as one of them. Yet, the latest report of The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reveals the...

We investigate international joint ventures in an integrated market using a two-country model with asymmetric sizes. We show that although the domestic firm in the small country is less efficient, it is possible that the government of the small country imposes a higher tax than that of the large...

The article outlines recent developments of German tax policy.

In some classes of models, taxes at the owner level are "neutral" and have no effect on firm activity. However, this tax neutrality is sensitive to assumptions and no longer holds in more complex models. We review recent research that incorporates greater complexity in studying the link between...

One response to uncertainty and transactions costs in VC-finance is to compensate founders (and other key personnel) with stock options under complex contracts. Entrepreneurs are granted stock options contingent on firm performance, vesting and other criteria. While most countries tax stock...

The series of events from March this year, with Cyprus in the spotlight created a lot of debate around the status of the “tax havens”, Cyprus itself being for a long time nominated as one of them. Yet, the latest report of The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development reveals the...