In the second contribution, Clemens Fuest and Bernd Huber take a more sympathetic view of the reform. Evaluating the pros and cons of corporate-personal tax integration with a special view on border crossing investment, they argue that the switch from the full imputation system to the classical...

In this comment, we argue that — even in the model used by Hines — full deductibility of costs under the exemption system is incompatible with nationally optimal tax policy. We derive an optimality rule which suggests that cost apportionment rules are efficient. Our findings also imply that...

We investigate the extent to which the corporation tax can act as an automatic stabilizer by smoothing the effects on investment of shocks to income. The main stabilizing effect would be through a reduced tax liability affecting the internal funds available for investment by credit-constrained...

Die Europäische Kommission hat kürzlich eine Reihe von Vorschlägen zur umfassenden Koordination der Unternehmensbesteuerung im europäischen Binnenmarkt vorgelegt. Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert diese Vorschläge und kommt zu dem Ergebnis, dass sie keine überzeugende Grundlage für die...

This paper measures the relative importance of quality and quantity effects of corporate taxation on foreign direct investment. Quantity is affected if corporate taxes reduce the equilibrium stock of foreign capital in a given country. Quality effects arise if taxes decrease the extent to which...

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities’ tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative...

We present empirical evidence suggesting that the effect of the host country corporate tax rate on the debt ratio of multinational affiliates in developing economies is positive and larger than the same effect for affiliates in developed economies.

This paper analyzes the effectiveness of the tax and transfer systems in the EU and the US to provide income insurance through automatic stabilization in the recent economic crisis. We find that automatic stabilizers absorb 38% of a proportional income shock in the EU, compared to 32% in the US....

This paper analyses tax competition and tax coordination in a model where capital flows occur in the form of mergers and acquisitions, rather than greenfield investment. In this framework, we show that differences in residence based taxes do not necessarily distort international ownership...

In der Debatte über die Zukunft der Eurozone wird auch das Konzept der Bankenunion diskutiert. Hans-Peter Burghof, Universität Hohenheim, sieht unter den gegenwärtigen Bedingungen die Gefahr einer europäischen Bankenunion, in der das Vermögen einiger Länder des Währungsraumes ohne...