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Fair and Effi cient Taxation under Partial Control:Theory and Evidence
Ooghe, Erwin; Peichl, Andreas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
There is clear evidence that fairness plays a role in redistribution. Individuals want tocompensate others for their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360559
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Progressive Taxation and Tax Morale
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Peichl, Andreas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
As the link between tax compliance and tax morale is found to be robust, finding thedeterminants of tax morale can help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper weanalyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a cross-country approach – whichhas not been investigated...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360564
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Automatic Stabilizers, Economic Crisis andIncome Distribution in Europe
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Peichl, Andreas - Institut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2010
This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protecthouseholds at different income levels against losses in current income caused by economicdownturns like the present financial crisis. We use a multi country micro simulation model toanalyse how shocks on market...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360592
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Poverty and Inequality and Social Policy in China
Li, Bingqin; Piachaud, David - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
socialpolicies are described and the effects on poverty and inequality are examined.The limitations of a social policy that is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009354041
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A New Unified Theory of Sociobehavioral Forces
Jasso, Guillermina - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper proposes a new unified theory of sociobehavioral forces. The goal of the new theory isto integrate theories describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justiceand self-esteem), status, power, identity, and happiness - bringing under a single theoreticalumbrella...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005860770
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Distributive Justice and CEO Compensation
Jasso, Guillermina; Meyersson Milgrom, Eva M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper develops a framework for studying individuals ideas about what constitutes justcompensation for chief executive officers (CEOs) and reports estimates of just CEO pay andthe principles guiding ideas of justice. The sample consists of students pursuing a Master ofBusiness Administration...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005861085
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Nice Guys Finish Last:Are People with Higher Tax Morale Taxed More Heavily?
Doerrenberg, Philipp; Duncan, Denvil; Fuest, Clemens; … - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2012
This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneouslevels of ‘tax morale’. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale impliesa high subjective cost of evading taxes. The model predicts that ‘nice guys finish last’: groupswith...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009486879
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Excess burden of criminality and redistribution
Demougin, Dominique; Schwager, Robert - 2000
of wealthy agents to finance redistribution. We compare this approach with standard modelling where redistribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005841060
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Heterogeneity, Redistribution, and the FriedmanRule
Bhattacharya, Joydeep; Haslag, Joseph H.; Martin, Antoine - Iowa State University of Science and Technology <Ames, … - 2004
We study several popular monetary models which generate a non-degenerate stationary distribution of money holdings. Across these environments, our principal finding is as follows: a monetary policy that sets long run nominal interest rates to zero (the Friedman rule) does not typically maximize...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009360925
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Low inequality with low redistribution?An analysis of income distribution in Japan, SouthKorea and Taiwan compared to Britain
Jacobs, Didier - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
, Taiwan and the UnitedKingdom. It relies upon decompositions of inequality measures bypopulation groups and income sources … (except for Japan because of datalimitations). According to national family income and expendituresurveys, income inequality … influencing income inequality are very different between thethree Asian countries on the one hand, and Britain on the other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008733221