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Between fear mongers and Samaritans : does information provision affect attitudes towards the right of asylum in Germany?

Hayo, Bernd; Neumeier, Florian - 2020 - This version: 1 July 2020

different information about the asylum-seekers that came to Germany in 2015 and 2016. The treatments involve information about … effects are more pronounced for middle-income earners and respondents with a low level of education. Deviations of people …

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Tax cuts starve the beast! : evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2019

infrastructure declines by ten cents. We find no significant effects on spending on education, legal protection and public safety, or …

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Media's role in the making of a democrat : evidence from East Germany

Friehe, Tim; Müller, Helge; Neumeier, Florian - 2019

This paper explores the causal influence of media content on voting behavior. We exploit a natural experiment involving access to West German TV within the German Democratic Republic. Focusing on federal and state election outcomes in the post-reunification decade (i.e., a time at which TV...

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The unequal consequences of the Covid-19 pandemic : evidence from a large representative German population survey

Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, Andreas - 2021

We employ panel data from three waves of a large representative population survey carried out between June and November 2020 to assess in what regards and to what extent different groups of the German population are affected by the COVID- 19 crisis. Using common factor analysis, we demonstrate...

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Corporate profit shifting and the role of tax havens : evidence from German country-by-country reporting data

Fuest, Clemens; Hugger, Felix; Neumeier, Florian - 2021

annual tax base loss for Germany amounts to EUR 5.4 billion. Adding estimates of profit shifting by multinationals not … covered by the CbC data yields an overall estimate for profits shifted out of Germany to tax havens of EUR 19.1 billion per … year, corresponding to 4.3% of the profits reported by these firms in Germany. This implies a tax revenue loss due to …

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Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? : evidence from the German housing market

Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Krolage, Carla; … - 2021

This paper examines the effects of real estate transfer taxes (RETT) on property prices using a rich micro dataset of roughly 17 million German properties for the period from 2005 to 2019. We exploit a 2006 constitutional reform that allows states to set their own RETT rates, leading to frequent...

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Does expert information affect citizens' attitudes toward corona policies? : evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens; Immel, Lea; Neumeier, Florian; Peichl, … - 2021

Information provided by experts is widely believed to play a key role in shaping attitudes towards policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic. This paper uses a survey experiment to assess whether providing citizens with expert information about the health risk of COVID-19 and the economic costs...

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The pass-through of temporary VAT rate cuts : evidence from German supermarket retail

Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 2021 - First draft: November 2020, this version: June 2021

identify the causal price effects, we compare the development of prices in Germany to those in Austria. Our findings indicate …

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