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Strategies and consequences of local fiscal consolidation: Evidence from Germany Open

Melinda Fremerey, Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler · 2025

Economics

We investigate the consequences of a large-scale fiscal consolidation program for German municipalities. Identification relies on a difference-in-differences approach exploiting political discretion in the program’s assignment rule. We fin…

Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation Open

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Ingo E. Isphording, Thu-Van Nguyen, Felix Poege , et al. · 2025

Economics

We study how profit taxes affect establishments’ R&D activities. Relying on detailed panel data of R&D-active firms in Germany over two decades, we exploit identifying variation induced by more than 10,000 municipal changes in the local bu…

Der Einfluss lokaler Steuerpolitik auf betriebliche F&E-Aktivitäten Open

Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Sebastian Siegloch · 2024

Political science

This article highlights the results of recent academic research on the impact of local profit taxes on establishments’ R&D activities in Germany (Lichter et al., forthcoming). It first presents the institutional setting of municipal financ…

Regionaldaten: Verknüpfungen ermöglichen Open

Thomas Bauer, Christina Gathmann, Ines Helm, Christian Raffer, Sebastian Siegloch , et al. · 2023

Business Economics Political science

Regional disparities are pronounced and persistent. Regional data of high quality are needed to improve the understanding of the origins and consequences of regional disparities and the effectiveness of regional policies through empirical …

Forced Migration and Local Public Policies: Evidence from Post-War West Germany Open

Arnaud Chevalier, Benjamin Elsner, Andreas Lichter, Nico Pestel · 2023

Economics Political science Geography

We study the effect of forced migration on public policy setting in the migrant-receiving country. After World War II, eight million expelled Germans arrived in West Germany within 5 years. We use regional variation in the population share…

Profit Taxation, R&D Spending, and Innovation Open

Ingo E. Isphording, Andreas Lichter, Max Löffler, Thu-Van Nguyen, Felix Poege , et al. · 2021

Economics Computer science

We study how profit taxation affects plants’ R&D spending and innovation activities. Relying on geocoded survey panel data which approximately covers the universe of R&D-active plants in Germany, we exploit around 7,300 changes in the muni…

The Long-Term Costs of Government Surveillance: Insights from Stasi Spying in East Germany Open