Projects of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2016 – 30.04.2017

    Inverse December Fever: Tax avoidance behaviour of Austrian SME

    This project exploits rich administrative tax-return data on the population of Austrian small and medium enterprises and their owners to study the behavioral responses of firms to taxes. The preliminary results…

  2. Project // 28.10.2015 – 28.10.2016

    The Effects of Fundamental Tax Reforms on Effective Taxation

    Corporate tax systems in Europe usually discriminate between debt and equity by treating interest payments as a deductible expense and equity returns as a reward for company's owners. This is called the…

  3. Project // 01.09.2015 – 31.08.2016

    Research support of the independent advisory board of the German stability council

    ZEW researchers provided research support to the independent advisory board of the German stability council. They assist the council organizationally and contentwise with the preparation of its biannual…

  4. Project // 01.08.2015 – 30.06.2016

    Reforms for More Fiscal Responsibility of Euro Area Countries and the Potential of Accountability Bonds

    The strong alignment of long-term bond yields of euro countries, which actually have different degrees of credit-worthiness, is evidence for the fact that meanwhile investors assume at least a partial factual…

  5. Project // 01.08.2015 – 31.07.2016

    Analysis of Tax Policy and Tax Administration: Evidence from Armenian Firm-Level Data

    Using panel data on the population of corporate tax-returns of Armenian firms, this project studies the behavioral response of firms to three size-dependent regulations: i) a tax-notch created by the value …

  6. Project // 17.07.2015 – 16.07.2016

    The Effect of Inflation Rates and Interest Rates on Forward-Looking Effective Tax Rates

    On behalf of the European Commission, ZEW computes measures of corporate effective taxation in Europe based on the Devereux-Griffith (DG) methodology on a yearly basis. For the computation of the effective tax…

  7. Project // 25.06.2015 – 24.06.2016

    Provision of effective tax rates in the context of an enlarged European Union, Update 2015

    Pursuing the goals of the Lisbon Strategy, the European Commission addresses the malfunctioning of the Internal Market due to corporate tax obstacles. In this context, effective tax burdens reveal possible…

  8. Project // 25.06.2015 – 24.06.2016

    The Impact of Tax Planning on Forward-Looking Effective Tax Rates

    As a consequence of the financial crisis, the taxation of multinationals is back high on the political agenda. The European Commission came up with an Action Plan in 2012 setting out over 30 measures to combat…

  9. Project // 01.03. – 31.08.2015

    Exchange of tax-related information with developing countries and tax havens

    The exchange of information between tax authorities is a key instrument in the fight against international tax avoidance and evasion. A better understanding of the factors driving the exchange of information is…