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Kapitalgesellschaften am stärksten belastet. Bezieht man die Gesellschafter mit ein, so ist die Belastung in Frankreich am höchsten. Die … deutschen Steuersenkungsmaßnahmen zum 1.1.98 reichen nicht aus, um den Wettbewerbsnachteil deutscher Unternehmen gegenüber … schweizerischen auszugleichen. Dagegen wäre mit Umsetzung der Vorschläge zur Großen Steuerreform 1999 in Deutschland eine derartige …
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Tax competition arguments suggest that governements that operate in an open economy (such as local governments) should not and will not rely on non-benefit taxes, such as the income tax. Yet we observe reliance on income taxes by local governments in many countries, and such reliance changes...
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innerhalb der EU würde die Wettbewerbsposition deutscher Unternehmen tendenziell verbessern. Eine ausschließliche Angleichung …
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In this paper, we use detailed data on the sovereign debt holdings of all German banks to analyse the determinants of sovereign debt exposures and the implications of sovereign exposures for bank risk. Our main findings are as follows. First, sovereign bond holdings are heterogeneous across...
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Most EU member states will adopt fiscal rules that refer to cyclically-adjusted borrowing limits. Under the standard cyclical adjustment procedure, trend increases in public debt based on cyclical components are prevented if the real-time output gaps used to calculate cyclical components balance...
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This paper investigates how government bond purchases affect leverage-constrained banks and non-financial firms by utilising a stochastic general equilibrium model. My results indicate that government bond purchases not only reduce non-financial firms' borrowing costs, amplified through a...
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Using an estimated large-scale New-Keynesian model, we assess welfare and business cycle consequences of a fiscal union within EMU. We differentiate between three different scenarios: public revenue equalisation, tax harmonisation and a centralised fiscal authority. Relative to the status quo,...
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Against the background of the recent housing boom and bust in countries such as Spain and Ireland, we investigate in …
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Despite strongly equalized per capita revenue and similar budgetary institutions, fiscal performance is increasingly diverging across German federal states. Given that state and local governments are endowed with expenditure autonomy, this paper investigates whether the composition of...
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We analyse tax revenue elasticities by applying dynamic models to a new disaggregated dataset for Germany, which is …
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