Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-81 // 2002

    ICT and International Corporate Taxation: Tax Attributes and Scope of Taxation

    In this paper, an outline of the consequences of the increased use of ICT on international corporate taxation, namely on the tax attributes and the scope of taxation, is given. It is argued that the concept of…

  2. Discussion and Working Paper // 2002

    Corporate Taxes and Economic Inefficiency in Europe

    This paper presents evidence on the effective levels of corporate taxation in the EU. It presents evidence on the distribution of the cost of capital and the effective average tax rate across forms of…

  3. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-53 // 2002

    Allokationseffekte der Besteuerung im Rahmen des Fremdvergleichsgrundsatzes und des Einheitsprinzips

    In general, the allocation of income of multinational enterprises to several jurisdictions for corporate tax purposes follows the OECD standard of the arm’s length principle. In contrast to the theory of the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 02-51 // 2002

    European Schemes of Social Assistance: An Empirical Analysis of Set-Ups and Distributive Impacts

    This paper analyses the distributive impacts of various regulatory and institutional settings of European schemes of social assistance. For this purpose, two sets of classifications of European schemes of social…