Unconventional fiscal policy uses announcements of future increases in consumption taxes to generate inflation expectations and accelerate consumption expenditure. It is budget neutral and time consistent. We exploit a unique natural experiment for an empirical test of the effectiveness of...

We exploit the unexpected announcement of an immediate, temporary VAT cut in Germany in the second half of 2020 as a natural experiment to study the spending response to unconventional fiscal policy. We use survey and scanner data on households' consumption expenditures and their perceived...

In den letzten Monaten ist die Frage der künftigen Ausgestaltung der Umsatzbesteuerung im Binnenmarkt erneut in den Blickpunkt der wirtschaftspolitischen Diskussion geraten. Das ursprünglich bis zum Ende des Jahres 1996 terminierte Übergangssystem der Umsatzbesteuerung im europäischen...

The paper discusses various possible approaches to turnover taxation in cyberspace. It shows that the main challenge of the new economy is to effectively cope with B2C international trade in digital online goods and services. However, most approaches to turnover taxation discussed in the...