Are people more likely to infringe on a legal obligation if they perceive it as unfair? This question is especially relevant in situations with low potential punishment for disobeying an obligation,i.e., with expressive law. To explore this issue, we present experimental evidence on how...

In recent years several countries have augmented their national tax laws bytransfer pricing legislations which intend to limit the leeway of multinational firms to exploit international corporate tax rate diverences and relocate profit to low-tax affiliates by distorting intra-firm transfer...

Using data on European firms, this paper provides evidence that an overproportional fraction of multinational group profits accrues with the corporate headquarters. Quantitatively, the estimates suggest that headquarters are by around 25% more profitable than their foreign subsidiaries, whereas...

This paper assesses the agglomeration pattern of four-digit industries in Germany using a rich data set on the population of German firms. To identify geographical agglomeration, the distance-based approach of Duranton and Overman of 2005 is followed. It is found that the location pattern of 71%...

Pascal Saint-Amans, OECD, stellt die Vorschläge der OECD und eine Analyse ihrer Auswirkungen auf die Steuereinnahmen und die Investitionstätigkeit vor. Demnach dürften die Steuereinnahmen weltweit erheblich steigen, das globale Investitionsniveau dagegen kaum ändern. Clemens Fuest, ifo...

In vielen Ländern hat die Reaktion auf die Covid-Pandemie tiefe Löcher in die staatlichen Kassen gerissen. Die deutsche Politik diskutiert deshalb über eine einmalige Vermögensabgabe zur Senkung der Schuldenquote. Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat beim Bundesministerium der Finanzen (2021) hat...