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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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; wealth distribution ; microsimulation …
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Since 2002 the German government seeks to stimulate private retirement savings by means of special allowances and tax …
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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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rates. Our analysis is based on a microsimulation model that accounts for the interactions between wages, the tax … examine this assertion for Germany, a welfare state with a relative generous means-tested social minimum and high marginal tax … a large extent be offset by reductions in means-tested welfare transfers and high marginal tax rates. Taking into …
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as well as increasing employment rates of recipients of social assistance. On the basis of a behavioral microsimulation … ; labor supply ; social safety system ; microsimulation …
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-level survey data. This study uses EUROMOD, a static tax-benefit microsimulation model calibrated for Malta, to evaluate the …Microsimulation models have been particularly useful when dealing with the economic welfare impact of COVID-19 … so doing, serve as a validation tool against which simulation exercises such as this can be compared. …
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This paper examines the effects of management practices on effective tax rates (ETR) in a sample of medium and large … manufacturing firms in Ecuador. We use a novel data set on management practice scores matched with administrative tax data from the … Superintendence of Companies and the Internal Revenue Services of Ecuador based on firms' tax filings. We find that better management …
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