Publikationen des Forschungsbereichs Unternehmensbesteuerung und Öffentliche Finanzwirtschaft

  1. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 21-031 // 2021

    Favoritism and Firms: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications

    We study the economic implications of regional favoritism, a form of distributive politics that redistributes resources spatially within countries. We use a large sample of enterprise surveys spanning…

  2. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 21-030 // 2021

    Regional Favoritism and Human Capital Accumulation in Africa

    We study the long-run implications of regional and ethnic favoritism in Africa. Combining geocoded individual-level survey data from the Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) with data on national leaders’…

  3. Referierte Fachzeitschrift // 2021

    Die Zukunft der Schuldenbremse nach der Pandemie: Einsichten aus einer Befragung aller 16 Landesparlamente

    Die grundgesetzlichen Schuldenregeln in Deutschland (auch „Schuldenbremse” genannt) sind zunehmend einer Reformdebatte ausgesetzt, die sich durch die fiskalischen Auswirkungen der Covid-19 Pandemie noch einmal…

  4. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 21-025 // 2021

    Monetary Incentives and the Contagion of Unethical Behavior

    We analyze both theoretically and empirically how monetary incentives and information about others’ behavior affect dishonesty. We run a laboratory experiment with 560 participants, each of whom observes a…

  5. ZEW Discussion Paper Nr. 21-024 // 2021

    Collaborative Tax Evasion in the Provision of Services to Consumers – a Field Experiment

    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…