Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location for investment. We measure the effective tax burden on capital investment and on highly qualified labour in 33 locations across Europe and the United States. We then correlate...

Based on the earlier work of one of the authors, this paper develops a unified methodology to compare tax progression for dominance relations under different income distributions. We address it as uniform tax progression for different income distributions and present the respective approach for...

The conventional approach to comparing tax progression (using local measures, global measures or dominance relations for first moment distribution functions) often lacks applicability to the real world: local measures of tax progression have the disadvantage of ignoring the income distribution...

In der Arbeit wird untersucht, ob Steuern die räumliche Allokation von Kapital beeinflussen. Die vorliegenden Ergebnisse belegen, daß die beobachtbare internationale Steuer-Standort-Konkurrenz um grenzüberschreitende Investitionen und Investoren theoretisch und empirisch nicht begründet...