Projects of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

Abgeschlossene Projekte

  1. Project // 01.01.2011 – 31.12.2012

    International Corporate Taxation and Group Structures

    The research project aims at finding empirical evidence for taxation effects on multinational companies. By contrast to the existing empirical work dealing with tax effects on multinationals, this project…

  2. Project // 01.01. – 30.09.2011

    Climate Proofing" of key EU Policies - short term actions

    In this project, the most significant threats and challenges posed by climate change to the EU were assessed, in order to identify appropriate measures that could be taken or adjusted to address these threats…

  3. Project // 15.12.2010 – 30.06.2011

    Reform options for the EU financial framework 2014-2020

    In the years 2011/12 the crucial decisions concerning the next EU financial framework for the period 2014-2020 will be made. Against this background the study has the aim to develop concrete recommendations for…

  4. Project // 01.11.2010 – 31.03.2012

    SEEK-Project 2010: Taxation and Corporate Innovation

    This project investigates the impact of taxation on corporate innovation in the context of the knowledge economy. In particular, the proposed research will investigate how taxes affect the incentives of firms…

  5. Project // 01.10.2010 – 30.06.2011

    National Fiscal Rules - An Instrument to avoid crises of confidence?

    The most recent debt crisis in the Euro area has demonstrated that a lack of trust of the market participants in the sustainability of public debt can affect the countries access to the capital markets. There…

  6. Project // 20.09.2010 – 31.01.2011

    Study on demographic change and the future of EU cohesion policy

    Aim of the project is to assess the effects of the demographic change on regional economic development in Europe.

  7. Project // 01.05.2010 – 30.06.2011

    The partisan effects on the economic expectations of firms and households

    The ideological orientation of governments can affect the economic performance in various ways. The political-economic partisan politics literature provides lots of evidence that the ideological orientation…

  8. Project // 23.04. – 23.07.2010

    The effects of tax simplifications

    In this project measures to simplify the German tax system are identified and prioritised. In addition, the identified measures are quantified and it is illustrated how these measures can be implemented…

  9. Project // 01.04.2010 – 31.01.2012

    BAK Taxation Index 2011

    In the context of a growing international economic integration, taxation becomes a more and more central factor in the competition of regions and countries for international investment and skilled employees.…