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The paper studies optimal income taxation in a model with labor supply responses at the intensive and the extensive margin. It is shown that a utilitarian desire for redistribution does not pin down the sign of the optimal marginal tax rate: labor supply may be downward distorted, undistorted,...
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Current European integration very much focusses on harmonisation and convergence. This streamlining goes far beyond what is demanded by economic reasoning and turns out - as the euro crisis has demonstrated - to foster tensions among EU member states instead of promoting a flourishing common...
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Is the reputation of a firm tradeable when the previous owner has to retire even though ownership change is observable? We consider a competitive market in which a share of owners must retire in each period. New owners, observing only recent profits, bid for the firms on sale. Customers are...
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A frequent feature of information structures is that they generate signals which are not mutually independent, but rather rely on a common set of underlying information. Using a simple experimental design, we show that in such contexts many people neglect correlations in the updating process,...
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Die Verteilung der aufkommensstärksten Steuerarten zeigt, dass in Deutschland starke Schultern mehr tragen als schwache. Die 10 Prozent der Haushalte mit den höchsten Einkommen zahlen fast die Hälfte des gesamten Aufkommens der Einkommensteuer. Bei der Mehrwertsteuer ist der Anteil aufgrund...
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Die Mitgliedstaaten der EU gewährten 2010 Agrarbeihilfen in Höhe von 10,3 Mrd. Euro. Die derzeitige Rahmenregelung zur Kontrolle von Agrarbeihilfen läuft im Dezember 2013 aus und muss für 2014 bis 2020 neu gefasst werden. Dies bietet die Gelegenheit einer Neuausrichtung. Die Autoren...
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