Tax competition for capital has led to a trend where many countries levy lower taxes on interest income, often introducing differential taxation between interest and business income. This study analyzes the effect on firm debt usage. We exploit Germany’s 2009 tax reform, which introduced a...

This study analyses whether multinational companies (MNCs) that are able to reduce their tax burden on capital by shifting profits to low tax jurisdictions invest more than domestic firms. To study the relationship, I exploit a massive corporate tax rate cut of 10%-points in Germany 2008 as a...

This paper assesses the impact of public R&D on firm R&D using patent application data on the county and firm level in Germany. We address the endogeneity of public R&D by employing an instrumental variable estimator that uses lagged institutional funding for research institutes and universities...

This paper assesses the differential impact of the local availability of grammar schools on local employment depending on the openness of a jurisdiction, measured by commuting costs. Commuting costs matter as they influence workers' reservation wage. While the reservation wage depends on public...

In this study we investigate the impact of the thin capitalization rule (TCR), introduced in Germany in 2008, on firms' capital structure, investment and profitability. The identification of the causal effects is based on the escape clauses in the regulation using a difference-in-difference...

Tax competition for the mobile factor capital has led to a trend in many countries to levy lower taxes on interest income, often introducing differential taxation between interest and business income. In this study, we analyze the effect of such differential taxation on the debt ratio of firms....

Tax competition for the mobile factor capital has led to a trend in many countries to levy lower taxes on interest income, often introducing differential taxation between interest and business income. In this study, we analyze the effect of such differential taxation on the debt ratio of firms....

Deutschland besitzt seit 1994 eine Regelung, die der Gewinnverlagerung multinationaler Konzerne mittels interner Fremdfinanzierung einen Riegel vorschieben soll. Trotz Nachbesserungen in den Jahren 2001 und 2004 war diese nach den bisherigen empirischen Untersuchungen wenig effektiv und...

Am 1. Januar 2009 wurde in Deutschland die Abgeltungsteuer für Kapitalerträge eingeführt. Einkünfte aus Kapitalvermögen werden seitdem mit 25 Prozent Einkommensteuer zuzüglich Solidaritätszuschlag abgeltend besteuert. Der Steuerzahler kann weiterhin die Anwendung des alten Steuerrechts...