A growing body of economics literature shows that multinational corporations (MNCs) shift their profits to tax havens. We contribute to this evidence by comparing a range of available data sets focusing on US MNCs, including country-by-country reporting data which has been released in December...

How much companies pay in corporate income taxes is often better captured by effective tax rates (ETRs) rather than by statutory ones. Economists further distinguish between those modelled using the law - forward-looking ETRs - and those estimated from actual data on companies' profits and taxes...

As economic integration within the European Union (EU) progresses, the interactions between the tax systems of the Member States are of growing importance. Member State tax policies can have spillover effects on other Member States and differing abilities to provide net fiscal benefits to...

Die jüngsten Entwicklungen in Griechenland und die Ankündigung der EZB, für mehr als eine Bil-lion Euro Staatsanleihen zu kaufen, zeigen zweierlei: Zum einen, dass die Staatsschuldenkrise noch lange nicht überwunden ist, und zum anderen, dass der Weg in die europäische Haftungs-union...