We study the effect of tax policy on stock market returns in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom using … GARCH models and a unique daily dataset of legislative tax changes during the period 1 December 1978 to 31 January 2018. We … find that days of discretionary tax legislation during all stages of the process often matter for returns, both in terms of …

This paper studies the design of tax systems that implement a planner's second-best allocation in a market economy. An … example shows that the widely used Mirrleesian (1976) tax system cannot implement all incentive-compatible allocations … one tax system. However, this tax system is often undesirable since it severely restricts the choice space of agents in …

In order to calculate the burden of a comprehensive and progressive income tax falling on a certain income source, an … apportionment scheme for the entire tax burden has to be chosen. This raises the question of how to deal with losses, which is … relevant for Germany in view of the heavy losses from renting. Using micro data from tax statistics we analyze the income tax …

Taxation changes the expectations of prospective university students about their future level and uncertainty of after-tax … enrollment decision, accounting for multiple nonrandom selection and employing a microsimulation model to account for taxation … uncertainty among academics decreases enrollment rates. A simulation based on the estimated structural model indicates that a …

reform. Our analysis employs microsimulation techniques. Furthermore, we estimate behavioral effects of the tax reform using …In the year 2000, the German government passed the most ambitious tax reform in postwar German history aiming at a … significant tax relief for households. Drawing on data of the GSOEP, we analyze the distributional and fiscal effects of the tax …

on a behavioral micro-simulation model which integrates an empirical household labor supply model into a detailed tax …-benefit model based on the German Socio Economic Panel. Our simulation results show that under each reform the lion?s share of the … supply effects are small for all analyzed family tax splitting reforms, both in absolute terms and relative to the implied …

Gender differences in voting patterns and political attitudes towards redistribution are well-documented. The … experiments on preferences for redistribution conducted in the U.S. and several European countries to disentangle these potential … mechanisms. We find that when choosing to redistribute income as a disinterested observer, women choose higher tax rates than men …

-employment in Germany. For the estimation I apply a microsimulation model which is based on the tax-benefit model STSM and on … parameter of risk aversion. The simulation results indicate that flatter tax systems do not encourage, but rather discourage …When possible income tax reforms are debated, the suspected impact on entrepreneurship is often used as an argument in …