In this article, the authors examine residential real estate taxation in some European countries. The authors outline the types of direct and indirect real estate taxes, present statistical data to demonstrate the structure of and tax yield and offer conclusions regarding the impact of tax...

We use a New Keynesian DSGE model with search frictions on the housing market to evaluate how financing a labor tax reduction by higher property taxation affects the real economy and welfare. Search on the housing market enables us to explicitly model stocks and flows, which is necessary to...

We quantify the effect of property tax reforms implemented in Italy in 1993 and 2012 on property prices. We focus on the Italian house prices index using the Interrupted Time Series Analysis (ITSA), a statistical approach that proves to be useful when a counterfactual scenario for policy...

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an "optimal" tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax...

There is often a gap between the prescriptions of an 'optimal' tax system and actual tax systems, some of which can be neither efficient economically nor efficient at redistributing income. With a focus on personal income taxes, this paper reviews the political economics literature on tax...

In ricardianischer Sichtweise ließe sich die Europäische Union in Länder der Peripherie und Kernländer aufteilen, wobei die Peripherie durch geringere Faktorentgelte charakterisiert ist. Die Bodenrente als Residuum der übrigen Faktorentgelte ist im Kern höher als am Rand und im Laufe der...

This research examines the transformation of public housing in four federal states: Austria, Germany, Canada and the USA and finds Austria to be a leading example of a sustainable affordable housing industry