"Americans now work 50 percent more than do the Germans, French, and Italians. This was not the case in the early 1970s when the Western Europeans worked more than Americans. In this paper, I examine the role of taxes in accounting for the differences in labor supply across time and across...

Prescott (2004) argues that Europeans work much less than Americans because of higher taxes and that they would gain significantly by charging US taxes and working as much as Americans. I argue that the opposite may be true and that Americans work more than Europeans due to a coordination...

Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht die Ausgestaltung der einkommensteuerlichen Abschreibung von beweglichen Wirtschaftsgütern (Absetzung für Abnutzung - AfA). Soweit es Zielsetzung des Steuergesetzgebers ist, ein international wettbewerbsfähiges und einfaches Steuerrecht zu verwirklichen sowie...

Guided by a simple theory of task assignment and time allocation, we investigate the long run response to national differences in tax rates on labor income, payrolls and consumption. The theory implies that higher tax rates reduce work time in the market sector, increase the size of the shadow...