Prof. Caren Sureth-Sloane is a full professor of Business Administration, especially Business Taxation at Paderborn University. She is also an adjunct professor of Business Taxation at WU. She has a strong track record in theoretical and empirical analyses of the impact of taxes, tax complexity, and tax uncertainty on investment decisions and in survey-based measurement of tax complexity and tax misperception. Caren Sureth-Sloane is on the editorial boards of many leading business and economics journals, including the European Accounting Review and the Review of Managerial Science, and is spokesperson for the DFG Collaborative Research Centre "TRR 266 Accounting for Transparency". She is a member of the steering committee of the Network for Empirical Tax Research at the German Federal Ministry of Finance (NeSt). She is a member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences, Humanities and Arts and of the Senate of the German Research Foundation (DFG). Since 2019 she is Vice President of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft für Betriebswirtschaft. She is a founding member of arqus, a working group on quantitative analysis of business taxation, and a member of the Schmalenbach-Gesellschaft's "Taxes" and "Transfer Prices" working groups.

Her current research interests are the economic analysis of tax regulation, including corporate income tax, income tax, trade tax, capital gains tax, wealth tax, anti-avoidance rules, and selected tax reforms. Her main focus is on the effects of taxation on business decisions, and in particular on the effects of taxes, tax risk, tax complexity and tax disputes on tax management, tax compliance, and risk-taking within and across countries. Within the doctoral program, Caren Sureth-Sloane encourages and supports young researchers to contribute to research on international business taxation, enforcement, investment, and compliance, and thus to the area Governance Issues in International Business Taxation. Through her involvement, PhD students benefit from her outstanding expertise and knowledge of the impact of international business taxation and the inherent tax uncertainty and tax complexity on decision making under uncertainty.

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