This paper investigates a procurement relationship between a welfare-oriented government and a private supplier. The agents face several versions of the trading good which differ in quality and production costs, and the differences between those items are undescribable ex ante. In presence of...

Die Besteuerung von Personen und Unternehmen wird im Allgemeinen als schädlicher Eingriff des Staates in das Marktgeschehen eingestuft. Je nach Ausgestaltung der einzelnen Steuern werden die Anreize der Marktteilnehmer in unterschiedlichem Maße verzerrt, was sich letztlich in einem...

This paper analyses the effects of cuts in the marginal tax rates on income from labour and capital on the macroeconomy and on the intergenerational distribution of welfare in a small open economy. For this purpose we set up a computable general equilibrium model incorporating overlapping...

In the recent economic debate on the design of fiscal policy in Germany it is gene rally agreed that the total hurden of taxes and levies has to be reduced. In this paper, arguments that form the basis of this claim are evaluated within a calihrated Real Business Cycle model. The analysis shows...