SEEK-Project 2013: Tax Policy, Productivity and Innovation

SEEK-Project 2013: Tax Policy, Productivity and Innovation

Client/Allowance

Baden-Württemberg

Period: 01.04.2013 – 30.11.2014

This project examined the effects of profit taxation on business performance and innovation through well-defined transmission channels and the resulting policy implications. The project made three key contributions: first, it contributes to the theory of the tax-innovation and tax-productivity nexus with a particular attention to financing constraints of innovating firms. Secondly, it exploited unique datasets that combine profit tax and firm-level information and that are an ideal match for the issues to be examined empirically. Thirdly, the project applied estimation strategies that allow identifying the link between taxation and innovation/productivity in a compelling way. The specific questions examined complement previous research on taxation and innovation under the SEEK programme.

Project members

Florian Misch

Florian Misch

Project Coordinator
Research Associate

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Sandra Gottschalk

Sandra Gottschalk

Senior Researcher

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Johannes Voget

Johannes Voget

Research Associate

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Client/Allowance
Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, DE

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SEEK-Project 2012: Taxation and Corporate Innovation

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