We conduct a field experiment with sellers of home-improvement services on two German online markets. We take the role of consumers and vary whether we request an invoice for the delivery of the service. In a…
The majority of countries around the world provide tax incentives for business philanthropy. However, little is known about the responsiveness of businesses to this tax treatment. This paper expands on this…
A growing interest in R&D tax incentive policies has given rise to a large number of evaluations, which provide contrasting results about their effectiveness. Our meta- analysis aims to explain the heterogeneity…
The public CbCR requirement for EU financial institutions leaves leeway to the reporting firms as regards the calculating and presentation of the data. Based on a sample of CbCRs published by EU-headquartered…
The aim of this study is to determine effective tax rates for the 27 EU countries as well as UK, Switzerland, Norway, Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, USA, Canada and Japan. The calculation of domestic and…
In its 2015 Final Report on “Measuring and Monitoring BEPS, Action 11”, the OECD introduced six indicators to quantify and evaluate base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS) activity over time. In this study, we…
We provide a comprehensive overview of the literature on the measurement of democracy and present an extensive update of the Machine Learning indicator of Gründler and Krieger (2016, European Journal of…
I analyze whether anti-tax loss trafficking rules affect the funding of start-ups in Europe. I base my empirical analysis on a panel of VC-funded companies in the EU28 Member States from 1999 to 2014. These…