This paper analyzes the change in tax preferences induced by the recent German corporate tax reform. The reform eliminates the imputation system and shifts the system towards a classical corporate tax system. However, financial preferences of corporations are largely unaffected if evaluated from...

This paper analyzes a model of corporate tax competition with repeated interaction and with strategic use of profit shifting within multinationals. We show that international tax coordination is more likely to prevail if the degree of asymmetry in terms of productivity differences between...

In den USA wird schon seit langem eine Eigenheimpolitik betrieben, die es breiten Bevölkerungsschichten ermöglichen soll, Wohneigentum zu erwerben. Dabei spielte weniger eine direkte Förderung sondern zunehmend eine Deregulierung des Hypothekenkreditmarktes eine Rolle. Die eher skeptische...

Das deutsche Mehrwertsteuersystem steht in Wissenschaft und Politik in der Kritik. Vor allem die ermäßigten Sätze werden in Hinblick auf Besteuerungsbasis und Inzidenz debattiert. Zu ihrer Rechtfertigung werden verteilungspolitische Gründe genannt. Ob diese stichhaltig sind, untersuchen die...

This paper studies a two-region model in which unemployment, education decisions andinterregional migration are endogenous. The poorer region exhibits both lower wagesand higher unemployment rates, and migrants to the richer region are disproportionallyskilled. The brain drain from the poor to...

This paper reviews the recent theoretical literature that analyses the European Union'spolicy to eliminate preferential corporate tax regimes and the proposal to introduce aconsolidated EU tax base with formula apportionment for the taxation of multinationalfirms. Since neither proposal includes...

In this paper fiscal policy is examined for an open economy characterised by unemployment due to efficiency wages. We allow for capital and firm mobility in a model where the government chooses the level of wage, source-based capital and profit taxation. The taxing choices of governments are...

Fiscal policy is examined in a model of an open economy which is characterised by unemployment caused by efficiency wages. It is shown that the conventional conclusion, according to which mobile capital is untaxed in the presence of wage taxation, is not generally valid. A positive capital tax...

We set up a probabilistic voting model to explore the hypothesis that tax competition improves public sector efficiency and social welfare. In the absence of tax base mobility, distortions in the political process induce vote-maximising politicians to create rents to public sector employees....

This peper anlyzes the impact of tax competition between two countries of un- equal per-capita capital endownments on tax rates and efficiency when distorting wage, residence-based and source-based capital taxes (or any combination of two instruments) are available for governments. The national...