This book discusses the impact of taxation on economic growth, employment, investment, consumption and the environment. The public finance literature commonly distinguishes between three major functions of taxation: the traditional function of raising revenue to finance government expenditure;...

In a simple three-factor-two-final-good formulation (two factors immobile and sector-specific), a well-known result under competitive and full-employment assumptions is that a partial tax on the mobile factor in either industry hurts that factor everywhere. It can be reversed, however, when the...

In der wissenschaftlichen Debatte über ein gerechtes und effizientes Steuersystem wird die steuerliche Behandlung von Kapitalerträgen kontrovers diskutiert. Dabei spielt die Höhe der Steuerbelastung der Zinseinkünfte eine wichtige Rolle. Hannes Schellhorn setzt sich hier mit entsprechenden...

The Atkinson-Stiglitz Theorem states that if labor is weakly separable from goods in household utility functions, differential commodity taxation should not be not part of an optimal redistributive tax system. This Theorem, which is arguable the most policy-relevant result to come out of the...