Mit dem Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz vom Dezember 2009 ist ein drittes Maßnahmenpaket in die Wege geleitet worden, mit dessen Hilfe die Folgen des Wirtschaftseinbruchs im Jahr 2009 abgefedert bzw. diesen entgegen gewirkt werden sollte. Die darin enthaltenen steuerlichen Sofortmaßnahmen...

This paper discusses the goal conflict between social protection and economic growth as well as employment. Taking the German economy as an example for the large continental economies of Old Europe, it analyzes twenty mechanisms that affect the fundamentals of the economy negatively and imply...

Mit dem Wachstumsbeschleunigungsgesetz vom Dezember 2009 ist ein drittes Maßnahmenpaket in die Wege geleitet worden, mit dessen Hilfe die Folgen des Wirtschaftseinbruchs im Jahr 2009 abgefedert bzw. diesen entgegen gewirkt werden sollte. Die darin enthaltenen steuerlichen Sofortmaßnahmen...

Modern economies deprive workers of natural democratic rights and any share of the surplus they produce, with most of the benefits of growth appropriated by capital owners. Worker wellbeing and job satisfaction are ignored unless they contribute directly to profitability, while precarious...

We study state-dependent effects of narratively identified tax shocks in Germany and the UK over the period 1974Q1-2018Q4 using local projections. In addition, we distinguish between aggregated and disaggregated tax types (direct and indirect taxes) as well as look for possible asymmetries...

This article describes ZEW-EviSTA®, the microsimulation model developed and used at ZEW - Centre for European Economic Research in Mannheim. The model simulates the German tax and transfer system using household micro level data. By estimating fiscal effects, labor market outcomes as well as...

I study the spill-over effects of legislated discretionary tax changes in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom to 11 Eurozone countries for the period 1980Q1-2018Q4 employing Local Projections (Jordà, 2005). In general, I find spillovers from US tax legislation to have the...

We study the announcement effect of legislated tax changes on GDP in the US, Germany, and the UK. Using, as the shock of interest, narratively identified information (Romer & Romer, 2009) about future tax changes at the quarter of their introduction to the legislative body, we analyse the...

This paper explores the international transmission of U.S. tax shocks and provides evidence for the German economy. Using structural vector autoregressions, we find that after a U.S. tax cut, German GDP increases moderately. While higher U.S. demand stimulates German exports, a deterioration of...