Für den Regelungszweck der Erbteilung sieht das Erbrecht alternativ das Eintreten der gesetzlichen Erbfolge oder die gewillkürte Erbfolge (z.B. in Form eines Testaments) durch den Erblasser vor. In allen Anwendungsfällen, in denen der Erblasser hinsichtlich der erbfallbedingten Zuteilung...

Die vorliegende Dissertation besteht aus fünf unabhängigen Forschungspapieren über optimale Steuer- und Bildungspolitik, welche ich während meines Promotionsstudiums an der Universität Konstanz erstellt habe. Private Versicherungen gegen Einkommensrisiko können aufgrund von moral hazard...

This contribution addresses the substantial tax privilege for businesses introduced by the German Inheritance Tax Act 2009. Advocates of the vast or even entire tax exemption for businesses stress the potential damage of the inheritance tax on businesses, as those often lack liquidity to meet...

We postulate a nonlinear DSGE model with a financial sector and heterogeneous households. In our model, the interaction between the supply of bonds by the financial sector and the precautionary demand for bonds by households produces significant endogenous aggregate risk. This risk induces an...

We study the link between culturally inherited household structure and wealth distribution in international comparisons using household data for the US and Spain (the SCF and the EFF). We estimate counterfactual US distributions relying on the Spanish household structure. Our results show that...

Este artículo analiza el problema de un planificador benevolente que desea controlar una población de agentes heterogéneos sujetos a perturbaciones idiosincrásticas. Esto es equivalente a un problema de control determinista en el que la variable de estado pertinente es la distribución de...

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. August 2009. Major: Economics. Advisor: Larry Jones. 1 computer file (PDF); vii, 102 pages, appendices A-B.

University of Minnesota Ph.D. dissertation. July 2009. Major: Economics. Advisor: Narayana R. Kocherlakota. 1 computer file (PDF); ix, 107 pages, appendices A-B.

This dissertation analyzes the optimal mix of direct and indirect taxes in an economy with multiple tax collecting authorities when both the taxes are subject to evasion and to what extent the tax compliance behavior of individuals in the United States are persistent and spatially dependent....

Following Chamley, Lucas, Laitner, and Aiyagari, this dissertation continues toexplore the answer for the question of zero capital taxation by discussing how taxeson capital income, labor income, and property affect the economy in the contextof a vintage capital model where the embodied...