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European Fiscal Union: What Is It? Does It Work? And Are There Really 'No Alternatives'?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012
The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone – either it is complemented by a fiscal union, or it will fall apart. In this paper, we discuss five possible elements of a fiscal union, of which three are in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010556928
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European Fiscal Union: What Is It? Does It Work? And Are There Really 'No Alternatives'?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone - either it is complemented by a fiscal union, or it will fall apart. In this paper, we discuss five possible elements of a fiscal union, of which three are in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010331439
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European fiscal union : what is it?, does it work?, and are there really ‘no alternatives’?
Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - 2012
The view is widespread that there are just two options for the future of the Eurozone – either it is complemented by a fiscal union, or it will fall apart. In this paper, we discuss five possible elements of a fiscal union, of which three are in the centre of the current debate on fiscal union...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009525226
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Fair and efficient taxation under partial control
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 125 (2015) 589, pp. 2024-2051
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011441323
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Vertical and horizontal redistribution : the case of Western and Eastern Europe
Bussolo, Maurizio; Krolage, Carla; Makovec, Mattia; … - 2018
deal with vertical inequality - that is, fostering redistribution from the rich to the poor - less is known about their … individuals may not only care about vertical redistribution, but also about the economic situation of the specific groups they … belong to, the horizontal dimension of redistribution becomes politically salient and can be a source of social tensions. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011962206
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Fair and efficent taxation under partial control
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - 2014
We study fair and efficient tax-benefit schemes based on income and non-income factors under partial control. Partial control means that each factor is a specific mixture of unobserved ability (randomly drawn by nature) and effort (chosen by individuals who differ in tastes). Factors differ in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229894
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The impact of redistributive policies on inequality in OECD countries
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - In: Applied economics 46 (2014) 16/18, pp. 2066-2086
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413340
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An unemployment insurance scheme for the Euro area : conference paper
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2014 - This version: February 14, 2014, Work in progress
The Great Recession and the resulting European debt crisis revived a debate about deeper fiscal integration in the Eurozone. We discuss different alternatives how an unemployment insurance system for the euro area could be designed and run counterfactual simulations based on micro data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489902
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Politicians' Outside Earnings and Political Competition
Becker, Johannes; Peichl, Andreas; Rincke, Johannes - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
This paper deals with the impact of electoral competition on politicians' outside earnings. In our framework, politicians face a tradeoff between allocating their time to political effort or to an alternative use generating outside earnings. The main hypothesis is that the amount of time spent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822024
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The Politicians' Wage Gap: Insights from German Members of Parliament
Peichl, Andreas; Pestel, Nico; Siegloch, Sebastian - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2011
Using a unique dataset of German members of parliament with information on total earnings including outside income, this paper analyzes the politicians' wage gap (PWG). After controlling for observable characteristics as well as accounting for selection into politics, we find a positive PWG...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876555