{"title":"Will temporary super depreciation allowances for green and digital investments have knock-on effects?","authors":"Michael Funke , Raphael Terasa","doi":"10.1016/j.jpolmod.2025.03.003","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div><span>As an incentive towards twin digital and green investment in the corporate landscape, the German Federal Government has suggested a targeted temporary super depreciation allowance to support much-needed green and digital transitions. Using a calibrated multi-sector </span>DSGE<span><span> model, we find that the temporary super deduction could trigger an uplift of 10 percentage points for crucial green and digital capital spending, turbo-charging decarbonization and digitization ambitions. However, with the temporary </span>corporate tax policy measure set to end after two years, there is a risk that the higher investment expenditures are levelling out afterwards.</span></div></div>","PeriodicalId":48015,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Policy Modeling","volume":"47 5","pages":"Pages 977-998"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1000,"publicationDate":"2025-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Policy Modeling","FirstCategoryId":"96","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0161893825000262","RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"ECONOMICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
As an incentive towards twin digital and green investment in the corporate landscape, the German Federal Government has suggested a targeted temporary super depreciation allowance to support much-needed green and digital transitions. Using a calibrated multi-sector DSGE model, we find that the temporary super deduction could trigger an uplift of 10 percentage points for crucial green and digital capital spending, turbo-charging decarbonization and digitization ambitions. However, with the temporary corporate tax policy measure set to end after two years, there is a risk that the higher investment expenditures are levelling out afterwards.
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The Journal of Policy Modeling is published by Elsevier for the Society for Policy Modeling to provide a forum for analysis and debate concerning international policy issues. The journal addresses questions of critical import to the world community as a whole, and it focuses upon the economic, social, and political interdependencies between national and regional systems. This implies concern with international policies for the promotion of a better life for all human beings and, therefore, concentrates on improved methodological underpinnings for dealing with these problems.