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Ist die Finanzpolitik der Bundesländer nachhaltig?

Rosenschon, Astrid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2003

The paper deals with the issue in how far the fiscal policy of the German Laender can be considered as sustainable. Comparing the fiscal policy stance and budgets of the 16 German states, only Bavaria and Saxony are pursuing a fiscal policy which may be labelled as sustainable. The other states...

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Shadow economies and corruption all over the world: what do we really know?

Schneider, Friedrich G. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Estimations of the shadow economies for 145 countries, including developing, transition and highly developed OECD economies over 1999 to 2003 are presented. The average size of the shadow economy (as a percent of "official" GDP) in 2002/03 in 96 developing countries is 38.7%, in 28 transition...

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Intergenerational Redistribution with Asymmetric Information: the Case of Non-Observable Savings

Lorz, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

This paper analyzes intergenerational redistribution in a 2-period overlapping-generations model of a representative … democracy. The model incorporates redistribution between generations and redistribution within generations, allowing for … political economy equilibrium is not Pareto-efficient. Redistribution results in equal consumption levels of individuals with …

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Social Security and Redistribution Within Generations in an Overlapping-Generations Model

Lorz, Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1999

democracy with asymmetric information. The model considers not only redistribution between generations but also redistribution …, consumption levels are perfectly equalized within both generations. Second, a redistribution bias exists in favor of the old …

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A Simple Coase-Like Mechanism that Transfers Control of Government Spending Levels from Politicians to Voters

Graves, Philip E. - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2007

Elected representatives have little incentive to pursue the interests of those electing them once they are elected. This well-known principle-agent problem leads, in a variety of theories of government, to nonoptimally large levels of government expenditure. An implication is that budgetary...

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On the effects of factor mobility on local infrastructure policy and rent-seeking

Lorz, Jens Oliver - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1998

endowment, different households benefit to a different degree from the infrastructure. This redistribution effect of local …

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Finanzpolitische Maßnahmen zugunsten von Familien ; Eine Bestandsaufnahme für Deutschland

Rosenschon, Astrid - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2006

This paper takes stock of German public support measures in favour of families. The database comprises benefits from family-specific norms of tax law as well as cash and in-kind transfers both from public budgets (federal, states’ and local layer) and from the social insurance system...

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Tax competition and determination of the quality of public goods

Abdessalam, A. H. Ould; Kamwa, Eric - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2013

In this paper, the authors analyze the behavior of local governments on capital taxation when the financial choices in terms of a public good quality are done by a central planner. More specifically, they ask the question whether a local government has an interest to tax the mobile factor in...

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Size effect, neighbour effect and peripheral effect in cross-border tax games

Liu, Xin - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 2014

This paper analyses a game theoretic model of tax competition in a system where tax authorities are revenue optimisers and countries are differentiated by size. The model accommodates more than two countries. In equilibrium, larger countries set higher tax rates non-cooperatively. By applying...

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Die andere Seite Chinas: Strukturprobleme, Reformdefizite und verzögerte Aufholprozesse im chinesischen Binnenland

Raiser, Martin; Nunnenkamp, Peter - Institut für Weltwirtschaft (IfW) - 1997

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