Tax competition among states and jurisdictions has already been examined many times in the economic literature. However, the main scope of the research was focused on a tax rates competition in income taxes and its consequences in bringing direct investments. This scripture/commentary tries to...

This paper studies the market and welfare effects of two main tax reforms – the Corporate Business Income Tax (CBIT) and the Allowance for Corporate Equity tax (ACE). Using an imperfect-competition model for a small open economy, it is shown that the well-known neutrality property of ACE does...

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...

We identify the impact of local firm concentration on incumbent performance with a quasi natural experiment. When Germany was divided after World War II, many firms in the machine tool industry fled the Soviet occupied zone to prevent expropriation. We show that the regional location decisions...

This paper shows that smoking intensity, i.e. the amount of nicotine extracted per cigarette smoked, responds to changes in excise taxes and tobacco prices. We exploit NHANES data covering the period 1988 to 2006 across many US states. Moreover, using panel data from the Coronary Artery Risk...

German Fiscal Federalism is characterized by a high degree of fiscal equalization which lowers the efficiency of local tax administration. Currently, a reform of the fiscal equalization scheme is on the political agenda. One option is to grant federal states the right to raise surtaxes on...

The standardization of corporate taxation has been a topic of debate for many years in the course of the increasingly progressive integration of European economies. Such a step would relieve the tax burden on cross-border companies and make tax minimization attempts by international companies...

Die Zinsschranke ist ein Instrument der Unternehmenssteuerreform 2008. Sie soll verhindern, dass international agierende Unternehmen ihre Gewinne über Fremdfinanzierung ins Ausland verlagern. Die Ergebnisse der vorliegenden Untersuchung sprechen dafür, dass multinationale Unternehmen...

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...

Changes in mechanisms of small business entities direct taxation prove the timeliness of scientific research into the issue of their activity tax regulation. The article covers the grounds for further use of favorable taxation of small business entities’ incomes in Ukraine. The ways for...