Der Aufschwung in Deutschland lässt auch die Steuereinnahmen deutlich steigen. Im Durchschnitt der Jahre 2014-2018 werden die Steuereinnahmen jährlich um 3,8 % zunehmen. Im Jahr 2018 ergibt sich damit gegenüber der Schätzung des Arbeitskreises "Steuerschätzungen" vom November 2013 ein...

The call for indexing the German income tax schedule to inflation in order to eliminate bracket creep has become widespread in the German tax policy debate. While it is indeed problematic that tax rates rise even when real incomes remain constant, the authors show that currently this is no...

Die Steuereinnahmen steigen im laufenden Jahr noch einmal kräftig auf 606 Mrd. Euro. Schon im kommenden Jahr wird sich die Dynamik infolge der Konjunktureintrübung spürbar abschwächen. Mittelfristig nehmen die Steuereinnahmen um gut 3 % jährlich zu und dürften 2016 etwas über 680 Mrd....

Nach der aktuellen IMK-Steuerschätzung für den Zeitraum 2013-2017 dürfte das Aufkommen in diesem Jahr nur noch um 2 % auf 612,2 Mrd. Euro zunehmen und damit erheblich langsamer steigen als in den vergangenen Jahren. Am Ende des Schätzzeitraums sind Steuereinnahmen von knapp 700 Mrd. Euro zu...

A non-linear model is applied where suddenly strong spurts of exports occur when changes of the exchange rate go beyond a zone of inaction. We call the latter a "play" area - analogous to mechanical play and implement an algorithm describing path-dependent playhysteresis into a regression...

In this paper, we evaluate the forecasting ability of 115 indicators to predict the housing prices and rents in 71 German cities. Above all, we are interested in whether the local business confidence indicators can allow substantially improving the forecasts, given the local nature of the...

Concerns about global warming and growing scarcity of fossile fuels require substantial changes in energy consumption patterns and energy systems, as targeted by many countries around the world. One key element to achieve such transformation is to increase energy efficiency of the housing stock....

Monetary policy rules have been considered as fundamental protection against inflation. However, empirical evidence for a correlation between rules and inflation is relatively weak. In this paper, we first discuss likely causes for this weak link and present the argument that monetary commitment...

We assess the contribution of macroeconomic uncertainty -- approximated by the dispersion of the real GDP survey forecasts -- to the ex post and ex ante prediction of stock price bubbles. For a panel of six OECD economies covering 24 years, two alternative binary chronologies of bubble periods...

In this paper, we develop a market screening model to detect inconstancies in price changes. Although there is a long history of industrial organization research of collusion, price setting behavior, and conduct - a robust model to detect structural changes in market structure was missing so...