During the next decades the populations of most developed countries will grow older as a result of the low level of birth rates since the 1970s and/or the continuously increasing life expectancy. We show within a Generational Accounting framework how unsustainable the public finances of France,...

The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of three stages, was welcomed by the public as a step towards unleashing lurking growth potentials. Nonetheless, in the course of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the...

In Zeiten der gesellschaftlichen Alterung befindet sich die Rentenpolitik im Zwiespalt zwischen politisch opportunen Leistungsausweitungen und fiskalischer Nachhaltigkeit. Die langfristigen fiskalischen Auswirkungen von leistungsausweitenden Maßnahmen und eine generationengerechte Ausgestaltung...