This paper simulates the distributional impact of the Russian personal income tax (PIT) following the flat tax reform of 2001 using data from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey. I decompose the change in the distribution of net income into a direct (tax) effect and an indirect effect....

Gesamtwirtschaftliche Effekte medizinisch-technischer Innovationen -- Wachstumsperspektiven der Gesundheitswirtschaft und ihrer Sektoren -- Auswirkungen demografischer Alterung auf die Gesundheitswirtschaft bis zum Jahr 2060.

We examine the use of dynamic overlapping generations (OLG) computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to analyze the economic effects of tax reforms, using as a paradigm our DiamondZodrow (DZ) model. Such models are especially well-suited to analyzing both the short-run transitional and the...