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 paper deals with second-best pollution taxation by investigating allocations instead of the corresponding tax rates. Assuming certain restrictions on utility and that the marginal revenue from environmental taxation is positive, it is shown that environmental quality is higher in second...

Many industrialized countries implement a policy to enhance private donations to public goods, i.e. tax deduction for charitable donation or further aggressive tax credit. There are already many theories supporting such favorable policies for private donations. However, there is another reason...

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 paper derives a version of the Samuelson rule, which takes not only the marginal costs of public funds into account but also the desirability of preference revelation. Under a linear income tax more able individuals suffer from a larger utility loss if taxes are raised to cover the cost of...

Should the assessment of government policies, such as the provision of public goods and the control of externalities, deviate from first-best principles to account for distributive effects and for the distortionary cost of labor income taxation? For example, is the optimal extent of public goods...

This paper considers a world of many symmetric countries where public goods in principle are financed by taxes on saving, investment and pure profits. In theory, countries could use all three taxes in combination. In practice, however, the tax instrument set may be restricted by, for instance,...

This paper deals with second-best pollution taxation by investigating allocations instead of the corresponding tax rates. Assuming certain restrictions on utility and that the marginal revenue from environmental taxation is positive, it is shown that environmental quality is higher in second...

This paper investigates the effect at the bank and industry level of a 1996 tax law change allowing commercial banks to elect S-corporation status. By the end of 2007, roughly one in three commercial banks had either opted for or converted to the S-corporation form of organization. Our study...

Unlike many social and physical sciences, legal scholarship includes little or no discussion of what models mean, how they are connected to the real world of law and policy, or how they should, and should not, be used by legal scholars. This void exists notwithstanding legal scholarship's...