Im Zuge der wirtschaftlichen Globalisierung und einem damit verbundenen Wettbewerb der Nationalstaaten um mobile Produktionsfaktoren, d.h. insbesondere Kapital, kommt der Wachstumseffizienz der nationalen Ausgestaltung der Unternehmensbesteuerung eine wachsende wirtschaftspolitische Bedeutung...

This article presents how the Collaborative Research Center TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency understands and studies transparency in organizations and markets. Starting from our transparency definition, which is rooted in a sender/receiver framework, we discuss how accounting, taxation, and...

Exploiting the German 2008 tax reform we employ an event study design to assess the effects of local corporate taxes on stock prices. We match firms to the local tax rates at their respective headquarters and analyze the differential stock market responses to the reform decision. We find that...

How sensitive is inward foreign direct investment (FDI) from the United States (US) to developing Asia to corporate tax rates? This is a relevant question given the sweeping US tax bill effective in 2018, which provided incentives for US corporations abroad to repatriate profits. Using panel...

The aim of this study is to review the level of debt and the impact of taxation on the capital structure of companies operating within national and multinational corporate groups in the countries of the Visegrad Group. In the research, financial data was used from 2012-2018 regarding entities...

The principal of neutrality is a key principle of the European Union (EU) Value Added Tax (VAT) system. The concept of tax neutrality has a number of dimensions and meanings. The purpose of the article is to examine whether the principle of neutrality shapes the main elements of VAT structure,...

This study analyzes the impact of secondary tax liability borne by stockholders, an exception to the principle of limited liability, on corporate investment. The paper constructs a model of a firm to examine the effect of this secondary tax liability, finding that the violation of limited...

Nationale Steuern werden durch zunehmende grenzüberschreitende Transaktionen vor neue Herausforderungen gestellt, wovon insbesondere die internationale Unternehmensbesteuerung betroffen ist. Neue Rahmenbedingungen beeinflussen die zwischenstaatliche Allokation der Besteuerungsrechte. Die...

This paper examines the efficacy of carbon tax policies in view of the interactions between such policies and the firm’s carbon efficiency and financing decisions. We show that because the government, unlike capital markets, does not price its policy’s risk by taking into account default...