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Tax Cuts Starve the Beast! Evidence from Germany

Fuest, Clemens - 2020

The 'starving the beast' hypothesis claims that tax cuts lead to lower public spending, rather than higher debt levels and higher taxes in the future. This paper uses the institutional setting of German fiscal federalism to its advantage in order to explore how fiscal policy reacts to exogenous...

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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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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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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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The Pass-Through of Temporary VAT Rate Cuts : Evidence from German Supermarket Retail

Fuest, Clemens; Neumeier, Florian; Stöhlker, Daniel - 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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Expected Effects of the US Tax Reform on Other Countries: Global and Local Survey Evidence

Boumans, Dorine; Fuest, Clemens; Krolage, Carla; … - 2019

companies. The effects on investment in Germany are ambiguous: While some firms substitute between investment locations, others …

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Does Expert Information Affect Citizens' Attitudes toward Corona Policies? Evidence from Germany

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

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Does Germany collect revenue from taxing capital income?

Becker, Johannes; Fuest, Clemens - 2005

losses. This paper investigates the revenue effects of a consumption tax reform in Germany. Our results suggest that the …

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The role of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer

Buettner, Thiess; Fuest, Clemens - 2009

This paper analyses the effectiveness of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer. It employs a unique firm-level dataset of German manufacturers combining financial statements with firm-specific information about credit market restrictions. The results show that approximately 20 per...

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Einführung: Die Zukunft der EU und die Reform der Europäischen Währungsunion

Fuest, Clemens - In: ifo Schnelldienst 71 (2018) 18, pp. 49-51

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