Recent reforms that aim at reducing the upcoming burdens of population ageing might seriously harm low income individuals. An increase in old-age poverty and disability will be the result. Under this prospect, the present paper quantitatively characterizes the optimal progressivity of unfunded...

This paper deals with the efficiency and distributional consequences of a switch from the current German income and corporate tax system to one special variant of an intertemporally neutral tax, an extended ACE (allowance for corporate equity) corporation tax. This tax is favoured by the IFS...

Eine prägnante Entwicklungstendenz der Finanzen des öffentlichen Sektors in den letzten Dekaden ist die Zunahme der öffentlichen Schulden. Gegenstand dieser Arbeit sind - aufbauend auf dem ökonomischen Verhaltensmodell sowie unter Verwendung des Ansatzes rationaler Erwartungen - verschiedene...

The paper shows the effect of demographic change on per capita burden of financing a PAYG social security system in the standard OLG model with frictional labor markets. Rising longevity and decreasing fertility both induce a rise in the employment level via increased capital accumulation and...