Publications of the Research Unit Corporate Taxation and Public Finance

  1. Contributions to Edited Volumes and Conference Proceedings // forthcoming

    Measuring Democracy

  2. Refereed Journal // forthcoming

    Nudging for Tax Compliance: a Meta-Analysis

    Governments increasingly use nudges to improve tax collection. We synthesise the growing literature on nudging experiments using meta-analytical methods. We find that, relative to the baseline where about a…

  3. ZEW policy brief No. 25-13 // 2025

    QDMTTs Leave Geographic Disparity Between Increased Pillar Two Costs and Revenues

    For the better part of the last decade, the global minimum tax, or Pillar Two, has dominated international tax policy discussions. Developing out of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project at the…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-054 // 2025

    The Demand for Economic Narratives

    Economic narratives are pervasive in the public discourse and can shape individual behavior. But so far we know very little about whether households actually demand and value narratives as information. We…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-053 // 2025

    OECD Pillar Two Compliance Costs: A Quantitative Assessment for EU-Headquartered Groups

    This study examines the compliance costs of OECD Pillar Two, i.e., the “Global Minimum Tax,” for multinational enterprises headquartered in the European Union. Collecting data from chief financial officers and…

  6. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-045 // 2025

    Far-Right Mass Protests and Their Effects on Internal Migration

    We study how far-right mass rallies affect people’s views about a city and thus location choices of nationals. To this end, we first exploit that the city of Dresden (Germany) unexpectedly experienced such…

  7. ZEW Discussion Paper No. 25-040 // 2025

    Beyond Content: Investors’ Chatter, Interaction and Earnings Announcement Returns

    We study the relationship between investors’ social media activity and earnings announcement returns. To distinguish between information contained in peer-to-peer interaction and user-posted content, we analyze…