An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions between endogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging. Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and how population aging aff ects the relative scarcity of factors of...

We characterize the Laffer curves for labor taxation and capital income taxation quantitatively for the US, the EU-14 and individual European countries by comparing the balanced growth paths of a neoclassical growth model featuring ”constant Frisch elasticity” (CFE) preferences. We derive...

This Research Paper contains a detailed documentation of the dynamic computable general equilibrium model PuMA. The model is used for analysing economic, labour market and public finance effects of different policy options, structural changes and other important policy questions. PuMA is similar...