In their seminal paper Fuhrer and Moore (1995) provide an explanation for the existence of inflation inertia. Driscoll and Holden (2003) argue that under more plausible assumptions the model of Fuhrer and Moore (1995) will coincide with the model of Taylor (1979) which can only explain sticky...

Macroeconomic fluctuations always are the result of complex interactive processes. For this reason, our challenge of the widely used New Keynesian Phillips Curve builds on Taylor's (1979) version, which provides room for a richer sequential and interactive structure. We show that the Taylor...

Seit der Gründung der Bundesrepublik Deutschland streitet man in Politik und Wissenschaft über eine adäquate Finanzausstattung der Gemeinden. Hierbei sind die Steuereinnahmen, die allerdings deutlich unter 50% der kommunalen Einnahmen liegen, aufgrund ihrer Fühlbarkeit, und hier insbesondere...

Analysen zur Struktur und der Verteilung eines Phänomens benötigen vor allem Mikrodaten, also Daten der individuell Betroffenen. Wir wollen in unserem vorliegenden Beitrag eine neue mächtige Mikrodatenquelle für Einkommensanalysen vorstellen, die Einkommensteuerstatistik mit anonymisierten...

Since the founding of the Federal Republic of Germany, politicians and scientists have been arguing about the appropriate funding of the boroughs. The tax revenue makes up less than 50% of the communal income but it is still the prior cause of conflict. Especially the business tax is content of...

This contribution analyzes the personal income distribution with the actual microdata of the German Income Tax Statistics and focus on top incomes for important labour market groups: the self-employed (as freelancers and entrepreneurs) and employees. New are the first longitudinal results based...