Die Autoren Clemens Fuest, Udo die Fabio und Gabriel Felbermayr haben die Effizienz staatlicher Eingriffe anhand verschiedener Beispiele untersucht und analysiert, ob man dieselben Ziele nicht mit anderen Mitteln besser und zu geringeren Kosten erreichen könnte. Ihr Fazit: Nicht alles, was gut...

In this article, we discuss reform elements of "Hartz IV". This includes, on the one hand, merging unemployment benefits with housing benefits and the additional child benefits (Kinderzuschlag) and, on the other hand, reducing disincentives which prevent the recipients from earning higher...

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

Die Europäische Union benötigt eine ambitionierte Industriepolitik, um gegenüber den Wirtschaftsblöcken USA und China nicht an Bedeutung zu verlieren. Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Stiftung Familienunternehmen mahnt deswegen eine entschlossene Strategie der Europäischen Kommission an....

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

Because of endogeneity problems very few studies have been able to identify the incidence of corporate taxes on wages. We circumvent these problems by using an 11-year panel of data on 11,441 German municipalities' tax rates, 8 percent of which change each year, linked to administrative matched...

This paper estimates the incidence of corporate taxes on wages using a 20-year panel of German municipalities exploiting 6,800 tax changes for identification. Using event study designs and differences-in-differences models, we find that workers bear about half of the total tax burden....