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The demand for income tax progressivity in the growth model

Carroll, Daniel R. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 2013

This paper examines the degree of income tax progressivity chosen through a simple majority vote in a model with savings. Households have permanent differences with respect to their labor productivity and their discount factors. The government has limited commitment to future policy, so voting...

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Marginal tax rates and income inequality: a quantitative-theoretic analysis

Altig, David; Carlstrom, Charles T. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1995

An Auerbach-Kotlikoff (AK) overlapping-generations model is used to examine how changes in marginal income-tax rate structures affect the distribution of income, drawing on actual changes to the U.S. tax code. This approach builds on AK by allowing for many different cohort types, and hence for...

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Marginal tax rates and income inequality in a life-cycle model

Altig, David; Carlstrom, Charles T. - Federal Reserve Bank of Cleveland - 1996

A presentation of computational counterfactual experiments that examine the quantitative impact of marginal tax rates on the distribution of income.

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A new look at the distributional effects of economic growth during the 1980s: a comparative study of the United States and Germany

Daly, Mary C.; Crews, Amy D.; Burkhauser, Richard V. - In: Economic Review (1997), pp. 18-31

and the compare these changes to those experienced in Germany. The findings confirm that income inequality did increase … observed in Germany. …

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Income Taxation and Household Size: Would French Family Splitting Make German Families Better Off ?

Baclet, Alexandre; Dell, Fabien; Wrohlich, Katharina - DIW Berlin (Deutsches Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung) - 2005

in Germany, as it is often claimed in the public debate. We use two micro-data sets and a micro-simulation model to … compare effective average tax rates for different household types in France and Germany. Our analysis shows that the popular …. Actually, low income families with less than three children even fare better in terms of tax relief in Germany than in France …

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Money, interest rate spreads, and economic activity.

Sauer, Christine; Scheide, Joachim - Kiel Institute for the World Economy - 1995

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Explodierende Staatsschulden, drohende Staatsbankrotte: Was kommt auf uns zu?

Blankart, Charles B.; Fasten, Erik R.; Kämmerer, Jörn Axel - In: Ifo Schnelldienst 63 (2010) 04, pp. 03-23

Seit Ausbruch der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise ist weltweit ein enormer Anstieg staatlicher Defizite und Schuldenstände zu beobachten. Was bedeutet die Entwicklung für die Europäische Währungsunion? Charles B. Blankart und Erik R. Fasten, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, finden es...

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