Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-005 // 2021

    What Will the OECD BEPS Indicators Indicate?

    As part of its action plan against base erosion and profit shifting (BEPS), the OECD (2015) has proposed six indicators to measure profit shifting activity. These indicators add to past and ongoing efforts in…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 21-004 // 2021

    The Political Economy of Euro Area Sovereign Debt Restructuring

    The establishment of a sovereign debt restructuring mechanism (SDRM) is one of the important issues in the academic debate on a viable constitution for the European Monetary Union (EMU). Yet the topic seems to…

  3. Refereed Journal // 2021

    International Taxation and Productivity Effects of M&As

    We investigate how changes in firm productivity after M&As are affected by differences in profit taxation between the target and the acquirer. We argue that tax differentials distort the efficient allocation of…

  4. Expertises // 2020

    Der EU-Vorschlag zum Country-by-Country Reporting im Internet – Kosten, Nutzen, Konsequenzen

    During the debate on base erosion and profit shifting of multinational firms, the claim for the disclosure of certain tax-related information on a per-country basis, the so called country-by-country reporting…

  5. ZEW expert brief No. 20-16 // 2020

    Magnitudes and Capital Key Divergence of the Eurosystem’s PSPP/PEPP Purchases – Update December 2020

    Since March 2020, the Eurosystem has been purchasing government bonds under the Pandemic Emergency Purchase Programme (PEPP). The PEPP was set up as a non-standard policy measure to encounter the economic…