The book analyzes the German welfare state. It starts from a theoretical perspective and then develops changes in social security, public health care, and unemployment insurance.

The article concerns issues of fiscal federalism in the broadest sense. It analyzes both the political causes and the economic consequences of interregional and international grants. Examples from Germany and from the European Union are considered.

The book offers a compehensive account of traditional and more recent developments in macroeconomic theory. It is written primarily for students at the intermediate level.

The article discusses issues in international taxation of firms. Particular stress is put on efficiency considerations. A concrete proposal for efficient cross-boarder taxation is made.

The book compares funded and unfunded pension schemes. This is done within a simple overlapping generations framework.

The article discusses the question whether or not family allowances have a strictly economic rationale.

The authors outline a public pension reform where contribution rates are reduced to zero over a very long horizon and in a Pareto-improving fashion.

The book offers a comprehensive treatment of tax theory and policy. It surveys the German tax system, portrays tax history, and describes principles of tax administration and the construction of schedules. Tax shifting, optimal taxation theory, and questions of tax justice are considered in...

The book studies growth paths in an overlapping generations model with land and exhaustible resources as factors of production. It is shown that land rules out inefficient growth paths.

Der Artikel vergleicht die klassische und die zinsbereinigte Einkommensteuer. Es wird argumentiert, dass die klassische Einkommensteuer in mehrfacher Hinsicht überlegen ist.