Leonie Fischer has been a researcher in ZEW’s Research Department “Corporate Taxation and Public Finance” since November 2017. Her dissertation is supervised by Professor Christoph Spengel. Her research particularly focuses on corporate taxation in the European Union and taxation of the digital economy.
Prior to this, she studied business administration at the University of Bamberg. Her major fields of study were business taxation and international accounting and auditing.
Selected Publications
Articles in Non-Refereed Journals
Bärsch, StB Sven-Eric, Christoph Spengel, Leonie Fischer and Kathrin Stutzenberger (2019), Internationale Unternehmensbesteuerung nach dem Brexit - Implikationen für deutsche Unternehmen, DER BETRIEB 36/2019, 1978-1986. Download
Discussion and Working Papers
Fischer, Leonie, Daniel Klein, Christopher Ludwig, Raphael Müller and Christoph Spengel (2020), Global Corporate Tax Reform to the Worse? Assessing the OECD Proposals, ZEW policy brief No. 20-01, Mannheim. Download
Spengel, Christoph, Rainer Bräutigam, Verena Dutt, Leonie Fischer and Kathrin Stutzenberger (2019), The Impact of the CCTB on the Effective Tax Burden of Corporations: Results from the Tax Analyzer Model, European Commission Taxation Papers No. 75, Brüssel. Download
Expertises
Spengel, Christoph, Frank Schmidt, Jost Henrich Heckemeyer, Katharina Nicolay, Alexandra Bartholmeß, Christopher Ludwig, Daniela Steinbrenner, Peter Buchmann, Theresa Bührle, Verena Dutt, Leonie Fischer and Barbara Stage (2020), Effective Tax Levels Using the Devereux/Griffith Methodology - Update 2019, EU Commission , Mannheim. Download
Fischer, Leonie, Friedrich Heinemann, Margit Kraus and Daniela Steinbrenner (2020), Länderindex Familienunternehmen - Standortfaktoren in Emerging Markets, Stiftung Familienunternehmen, München, DE. Download
Spengel, Christoph, Frank Schmidt, Jost Henrich Heckemeyer, Katharina Nicolay, Alexandra Bartholmeß, Christopher Ludwig, Daniela Steinbrenner, Rainer Bräutigam, Peter Buchmann, Theresa Bührle, Elisa Casi, Verena Dutt, Leonie Fischer, Christoph Harendt, Raphael Müller, Thomas Schwab, Barbara Stage, Heiko Vay and Ann-Catherin Werner (2019), Effective Tax Levels Using the Devereux/Griffith Methodology - Update 2018, Project for the EU Commission TAXUD/2018/DE/307 Intermediary Report 2018 , Mannheim. Download
Bräutigam, Rainer, Theresa Bührle, Verena Dutt, Leonie Fischer, Friedrich Heinemann and Margit Kraus (2019), Länderindex Familienunternehmen, Stiftung Familienunternehmen, München. Download
Spengel, Christoph, Frank Schmidt, Jost Henrich Heckemeyer, Katharina Nicolay, Alexandra Bartholmeß, Rainer Bräutigam, Julia Braun, Peter Buchmann, Theresa Bührle, Elisa Casi, Verena Dutt, Leonie Fischer, Christoph Harendt, Marcel Olbert, Olena Pfeiffer, Thomas Schwab, Daniela Steinbrenner, Kathrin Stutzenberger, Maximilian Todtenhaupt, Heiko Vay and Ann-Catherin Werner (2018), Effective Tax Levels Using the Devereux/Griffith Methodology - Update 2017, Project for the EU Commission TAXUD/2013/CC/120 Final Report 2017, Mannheim. Download
Projects
Current Projects
- Project Duration 01.07.2020 - 01.07.2021Effective Levels of Company Taxation within an Enlarged European Union and Related Supporting Services – Update 2020
- Project Duration 25.05.2020 - 31.10.2020Update 2020 of the Country Index for Family Enterprises
- Project Duration 01.01.2019 - 31.12.2020The Case Law of the European Court of Justice in the Area of Direct Taxation – an Interdisciplinary Analysis
Finished Projects
- Project Duration 04.06.2019 - 04.06.2020Effective Levels of Company Taxation within an Enlarged European Union and Related Supporting Services – Update 2019
- Project Duration 29.04.2019 - 15.11.2019Country Index for Family Enterprises Emerging Markets - Update 2019
- Project Duration 22.05.2018 - 21.05.2019Effective Levels of Company Taxation within an Enlarged European Union and Related Supporting Services – Update 2018
- Project Duration 15.05.2018 - 15.10.2018Update 2018 of the Country Index for Family Enterprises
- Project Duration 01.01.2018 - 31.08.2018Comparison of the Change in the Effective Tax Burden of Corporations Across EU Member States Based on a Model-Firm Approach (Tax Analyzer Model)
- Project Duration 01.08.2017 - 31.10.2018Effective Levels of Company Taxation within an Enlarged European Union and Related Supporting Services, Update 2017
Department
Corporate Taxation and Public Finance
Function
Researcher
