1.6 million euros for ZEW and the University of Mannheim
The funds were approved by the Senate of the Leibniz Association on March 21, 2023. In addition, the state of Baden-Württemberg supports the campus with 400,000 euros. During the same period, the University of Mannheim and the ZEW are investing a further 2.4 million euros in tax research coordinated by MannheimTaxation at the Mannheim location.
“Since it was founded, MannheimTaxation has always managed to bring together the best minds in economics, law and politics from Germany and abroad to discuss current tax research issues,” says MannheimTaxation spokesman Prof. Dr. Christoph Spengel, ZEW research professor and holder of the chair for general business administration and business taxation II at the University of Mannheim. “MannheimTaxation is a ten-year success story. The interdisciplinary cooperation makes it possible to take economic, entrepreneurial, political and legal aspects into account when dealing with fiscal challenges,” says ZEW President Prof. Achim Wambach, PhD.
In the new funding phase, research in the ScienceCampus is concentrating on the topics
Taxes, innovations and sustainable growth,
Tax avoidance and evasion, latest developments in international taxation,
Tax incidence and (re)distribution as well as fiscal policy and green taxation in the EU.
About Mannheim Taxation
About MannheimTaxation as a research network, conferences and workshops are regularly held at the Mannheim site, where numerous renowned scientists from nationally and internationally renowned universities meet young talents and colleagues for specialist lectures, discussions and mutual exchange. The next MannheimTaxation annual conference will take place on September 7th and 8th, 2023.
MannheimTaxation is supported by ZEW, the University of Mannheim, the state of Baden-Württemberg and the Leibniz Association, to which ZEW has belonged since 2004. Around 70 professors and (young) scientists are currently working together through MannheimTaxation.
With the Mannheim Center for Competition and Innovation (MaCCI), another Leibniz ScienceCampus has existed since 2012, where ZEW and the University of Mannheim jointly implement scientific projects with a focus on competition, regulation and innovation.