In recent years, the study of how individuals respond to policies that aim at promoting pension savings has emerged as a vital area of economic research. This paper adds to this literature by estimating the tax price elasticity of contributions to tax-favoured pension savings accounts on a...

Considerable empirical research exists on donations in the US and their determinants, including estimations of the income and price elasticity of giving. By contrast, less is known about the determinants of countries with an extensive welfare state. We address this deficiency by studying the...

Der vorliegende Beitrag widmet sich der Frage, ob die begünstigte Besteuerung nicht entnommener Gewinne gem. § 34a EStG dazu geeignet ist, Personenunternehmen steuerlich vergleichbar zu belasten wie Kapitalgesellschaften. Um die Steuerbelastung einbehaltener Gewinne kalkulieren zu können,...

Pension benefit rules depend on individual history far more than taxes do, and age plays a much larger role in pension determination than in tax determination. Apart from some simulation studies, theoretical studies of optimal tax design typically contain neither a mandatory pension system nor...

This paper analyses the effectiveness of the corporate income tax as an automatic stabilizer. It employs a unique firm-level dataset of German manufacturers combining financial statements with firm-specific information about credit market restrictions. The results show that approximately 20 per...

This paper follows the theory of optimal taxation and the goal is to identify a tax/benefit design that maximizes social welfare. A two stage process is proposed where the individuals preferred choice of leisure and consumption is solved in the first stage, and the second stage identifies the...

Zum 1.1.2008 führte die Bundesregierung die begünstigte Besteuerung thesaurierter Gewinne für Einzelunternehmen und Personengesellschaften in Deutschland ein. Eine ähnliche Regelung existiert bereits seit 2004 in Österreich. Dieser Beitrag vergleicht die Investitionswirkungen der beiden...