Main description: Der Tagungsband 2003 des Finanzwissenschaftlichen Ausschusses zum Thema "Finanzpolitik und Umverteilung" bietet einen kompetenten Überblick über neuere Entwicklungen auf dem politisch aktuellen Forschungsfeld der Umverteilungspolitik, den in dieser synoptischen und kompakten...

The essay analyzes in an overlapping-generations model, to which extent a pay-as-you-go pension system will be the outcome of majority voting, given specific institutional set-ups. Clearly, the vote of an active person depends on his expectations about how the present decision (i.e., his...

This article incorporates tax evasion into an optimum taxation framework with individuals differing in earning abilities and initial wealth. We find that despite the possibility of its evasion a tax on initial wealth should supplement the optimal nonlinear income tax, given a positive...

This paper investigates the effect of adverse selection on the private annuity market in a model with two periods of retirement and two types of individuals, who differ in their life expectancy. In order to introduce the existence of time-limited pension insurance, we consider a model where for...