The German Income Tax Reform 2000, which announced a reduction in income tax rates to be implemented in a series of three stages, was welcomed by the public as a step towards unleashing lurking growth potentials. Nonetheless, in the course of the year 2001 a dispute arose, centering around the...

This article surveys the literature on selection effects in retirement behavior. More specifically, we consider early retirement schemes with actuarially fair adjustments based on average life expectancy. To this end, we recapitulate the theoretical literature on selection effects and resulting...

In einem kürzlich in der Zeitschrift "Finanzarchiv" erschienenen Beitrag untersuchte B. Raffelhüschen, wie sich eine Volkswirtschaft an das Umlageverfahren anpaßt. Er verwendete dafür das Diamond-Generationen-Modell, welches er für seine Simulation geeignet spezifizierte und Daten der...

In this paper the view of humankind and nature upon which the thinking of Malthus is founded will be reflected on and contrasted with the opposed understanding of his contemporary Wordsworth. We show that the economic considerations of both are based decidedly on the premise of these views, and...