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 …

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 …

distributions for 2001?2006. By applying alternative rules of taxation, revenues according to different tax rate structures are … deduced. Introducing new tax rates in 2004 resp. in 2005 will reduce the average tax rates and - though somewhat less - the … marginal tax rates on average. ?Bracket creep? will remain a huge problem in Germany. Indexation of the tax rate structure is …

for 2000–2003. By applying alternative rules of taxation, revenues according to different tax rate structures are deduced …. When introducing the tax rate structures proposed by the federal government, the average tax rate is reduced, but the … marginal tax rates on average are lower only in the short run. …

issue by estimating “unexplained” changes in tax and social contribution revenues, based on proxies for tax revenue bases … same exercise using alternative tax base proxies, either taken from forecasting models or on the basis of our knowledge of … the tax system in each country. The results show that, in the aggregate, revenue windfalls and shortfalls have exhibited a …

We estimate the elasticities of the most important tax categories using a new quarterly database of discretionary tax … the UK, long-term tax-to-base elasticities are generally higher than short-term elasticities, whereas results for the US … close to unity. (iii) German and UK tax-to-output elasticities in the short term are lower than long-term elasticities, with …

countries using pooled regressions. Fiscal effects are included via after-tax interest rates. Other factors shown to be relevant …

This paper analyzes intergenerational redistribution in a 2-period overlapping- generations model that allows for … political economy equilibrium is not Pareto-efficient. Redistribution results in equal consumption levels of individuals with …