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Is Local Consumer Protection Law a Better Redistributive Mechanism Than the Tax System?
Galle, Brian D. - 2011
redistribution through local tort or contract law is superior to either national or local redistributive taxation. The heart of the … capture social preferences for redistribution. At the same time, attempts to enact redistributive taxes at the local level … incorporation of local preferences for redistribution, while reducing deadweight losses. The deadweight losses of legal rules are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013134618
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A Common EU Framework Regulating Import Pipelines for Gas? Exploring the Commission's Proposal to Amend the 2009 Gas Directive
Hancher, Leigh - 2020
This contribution investigates the form and content of a new and updated European Union (EU) legal framework intended to regulate third-country import pipelines for gas, including the ‘upstream' component of the Nord Stream 2 pipeline. The article will first set the scene and examine the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012850131
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An unemployment insurance scheme for the Euro area : conference paper
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2014 - This version: February 14, 2014, Work in progress
The Great Recession and the resulting European debt crisis revived a debate about deeper fiscal integration in the Eurozone. We discuss different alternatives how an unemployment insurance system for the euro area could be designed and run counterfactual simulations based on micro data to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010489902
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Taxation of families and "families of taxation"? : inequality modification between family types across welfare states
Schechtl, Manuel - 2020 - This version: 22.07.2020
Previous sociological research has overlooked the fact that a welfare state’s tax system does not solely redistribute from rich to poor (vertical) but also between family types (horizontal). Different types of families are treated differently due to (de-)familialization policies in the tax...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012265932
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Does redistribution hurt growth? : an empirical assessment of the redistribution-growth relationship in the European Union
Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia; Köppl-Turyna, Monika - 2024
This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution to low-income earners, we introduce a new measure, the so …-called net benefit share (NBS). Contrary to other findings, we show that this (targeted) redistribution to lowincome earners (Q1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014552531
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Does redistribution hurt growth? : an empirical assessment of the redistribution-growth relationship in the European Union
Köppl-Turyna, Monika; Christl, Michael; De Poli, Silvia - 2024
This paper analyzes the relationship between economic growth, inequality and redistribution. In a cross-country setting … the short run. To estimate the impact of redistribution to low-income earners, we introduce a new measure, the so …-called net benefit share (NBS). Contrary to other findings, we show that this (targeted) redistribution to low income earners (Q1 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014483700
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Were we really all in it together? : the distributional effects of the 2010 - 2015 UK Coalition government's tax-benefit policy changes ; an end-of-term update
De Agostini, Paola; Hills, John R.; Sutherland, Holly - 2015
This paper examines the distributional impacts of the changes to benefits, tax credits, pensions and direct taxes between the UK Elections in May 2010 and in May 2015. It also looks ahead to the longer-term effects of changes and plans that were announced by the 2010-2015 Coalition government,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011317097
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Income inequality in the European Union
Leyen, Kaja von der - 2012
Poor growth performance over the past decades in Europe has increased concerns for rising income dispersion and social exclusion. European authorities have recently launched the Europe 2020 strategy which aims to improve social inclusion in Europe on top of already existing European regional...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009690154
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Fiscal integration in the Eurozone : economic effects of two key scenarios
Dolls, Mathias; Fuest, Clemens; Neumann, Dirk; Peichl, … - 2014
lead to moderate gains in terms of stabilization while redistribution would flow especially towards the Eastern European …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010234019
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The redistributive effect and progressivity of taxes revisited : an international comparison across the European Union
Verbist, Gerlinde; Figari, Francesco - 2014
and redistribution through taxes. Second we hereby test whether there is a relationship between progressivity and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010340288