Empirical evidence on the degree of business-tax shifting to employees via the wage level is highly controversial and rare. It remains open to which extent the tax burden is shifted, whether there are differences for tax increases and decreases, or whether there exists some treatment...

Fehlanreize im Sozialsystem stehen derzeit im Mittelpunkt der öffentlichen Debatte. Gibt es ähnliche Phänomene bei der Einkommensbesteuerung? Professor Dirk Meyer plädiert für eine Sollertragsbesteuerung, die statt an dem tatsächlich erzielten Einkommen an den möglichen Erträgen des...

The paper presents data on the taxation of business income in the Federal Republic of Germany in the nineties. The government's plan to reform the System of taxing corporate and personal income is portrayed and assessed. It turns out that the reform proposal has numerous disadvantages; it is...

The paper includes data on the taxation of wage income (labor income tax and contributions to social security) and capital income in the Federal Republic of Germany. Average tax rates and marginal tax rates for typical wage income earners are shown for the 1977-1999 period; average tax rates are...

Auf seiner 132. Tagung hat der Arbeitskreis "Steuerschätzungen" Mehreinnahmen für die Jahre 2008 und 2009 prognostiziert. Von einem krisenbedingten Einbruch der Staatseinnahmen kann gegenwärtig nicht gesprochen werden. Obwohl die Prognosen für das Wirtschaftswachstum reduziert werden, wird...

We use a unique matched tax return-financial statement data set to examine the magnitude and sources of book-tax differences in Germany. For the first time, the data set enables us to evaluate the extent to which financial and tax accounting differ in Germany in the most accurate manner. Despite...

Within the EU the relation between financial and tax accounting will be significantly influenced by the regulation adopted in June 2002 that obliges all listed companies to prepare their consolidated accounts according to International Accounting Standards / International Financial Reporting...

While risk selection within the German public health insurance system has received considerable attention, risk selection between public and private health insurers has largely been ignored. This is surprising since - given the institutional structure - risk selection between systems is likely...

This paper explores the relationship between risk attitude and asset diversification in household portfolios. We first examine the impact of manifested risk aversion on the total number of distinct assets held in a portfolio (naive diversification). The second part of the paper focuses on a more...

With banking sectors worldwide still suffering from the effects of the financial crisis, public discussion of plans to place toxic assets in one or more bad banks has gained steam in recent weeks. The following paper presents a plan how governments can efficiently relieve ailing banks from toxic...