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As part of Germany’s fiscal response to the Covid-19 pandemic, parents received three payments totalling e450 per child. Randomization in the payment dates and daily scanner data allow us to identify the effects of these transfers on household spending. We find a significant but small spending...
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Closely following the seminal contribution of Jappelli and Pistaferri (2014) - based on Italian household survey data - we employ data of 22 European countries to assess the role of heterogeneity of the marginal propensity to consume (MPC) for fiscal policy in the Euro area. We document an...
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through indirect tax collection. The effect on the labor market is different for unskilled workers--whose higher supply …
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I estimate permanent and transitory tax-price and income elasticity of charitable giving in Germany using a rich panel … data of tax return for the years 2001-2006. Income tax reforms were implemented in 2004 and 2005. The results suggest that … the permanent tax-price elasticity varies significantly by income class, ranging from -0.2 for low incomes to -1.6 for …
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robot tax that has featured prominently in the policy debate on automation and show that it could raise the capital stock … and per capita output at the steady state. However, the robot tax cannot induce a takeoff toward positive long-run growth. …
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Tax expenditures are generally defined as those government expenditures carried out through tax legislation …, regulations, and practices that reduce or defer taxes for some taxpayers. There is a general concern that the tax expenditures … negatively affect the budget and tax policies, which in turn affect the transparency, efficiency, and equality of the fiscal …
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This paper uses standard fiscal incidence analysis to study how much income redistribution and poverty reduction are …
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of the overall tax burden over per capita GDP. In average, an increase of 1 percent in the overall tax burden decreases …). Furthermore, additional econometric results pointed out that a revenue neutral fiscal policy which changes the tax structure …
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