Mehreinnahmen aus höheren Reichensteuern fallen überwiegend in den finanzstarken Ländern an. Dies sind Hamburg und die wohlhabenderen Flächenländer in Süddeutschland, während die ärmeren Flächenländer im Westen und Norden nur unterdurchschnittliche Mehreinnahmen je Einwohner erzielen....

In the process of furthering EU integration little attention was given to the role of income taxes. Multiple income tax systems exist across the Union and their differentiation negatively impacts the European labor market, investments and savings, inhibiting economic growth. Individual nations...

The objective of this work is to study whether the behaviour of the housing market is homogeneous in all provinces or, on the contrary, there is a specific housing behaviour particular to each province or group of provinces, leading to the existence of regional housing markets. The main data...

It is systemic to expound how that the speculative behaviors are driven by the number of a series housing policies promulgated by China's government for the real estate market. The market is resulted in full of speculative behaviors, and has been booming since the beginning of this decade, even...

The weight of the housing tenancy market in Spain is very low. It is frequently argued that an ineffective judicial system, implying a cumbersome procedure to evict a non-paying tenant or simply requiring a long period to execute a decision, may be an important determinant of the tenancy...

This paper investigates the relationship between the magnitude of automatic stabilizers in the tax and transfer systems of 19 EU countries and the US, and discretionary fiscal stimulus packages passed by these countries during the recent economic crisis. In particular, we ask whether countries...

This research examines problems surrounding procedures of fiscal policy and their influence on economic growth in Nigeria from 1970 - 2009. Theory envisage that fiscal policy can impinge on economic growth by changing motivation for investment and labour as well as by altering after-tax proceeds...

Nach den Wahlen im September sind größere Änderungen beim Einkommensteuertarif zu erwarten. Ferner wird häufig gefordert, Familien mit Kindern stärker zu fördern. Aus diesem Anlass hat das DIW Berlin einige Änderungsvorschläge hinsichtlich ihrer gesamtwirtschaftlichen Auswirkungen...

The objective was given to identify which salary scales exist within micro-enterprises (SME’s) of the economical sector depending on tourism, through representative sample taking, as well as determining the sector to which the SME’s belong that generate greater revenue or, on the contrary,...

This paper makes a quantitative assessment of possible reforms to the Chilean tax system. The simulations are based on a recursive dynamic computable general equilibrium model that is calibrated with the input-output matrix 2003. For each scenario is considered a cut effective rate of value...