Recent contributions to the theory of taxation argue that tax progression raises welfare and employment in the presence of labour market imperfections. This literature takes the endowment of workers with human capital as given. The present paper analyses the effects of tax progression in a model...

Empirical evidence from the U.S. and the European Union suggests that regions which contribute to interregional redistribution face weaker borrowing constraints than regions which benefit from interregional redistribution. This paper presents an argument in favor of such differentiated budget...

This paper compares the second-best optimal tax on polluting consumption goods with the Pigovian tax, which would internalize marginal environmental damage at a second-best optimum. It is shown that the relationship between the optimal tax on polluting consumption and the Pigovian tax is...

This paper analyses the optimal taxation of dividends and other types of income from portfolio investment. We show that, in an open economy, it is not desirable to offer double taxation relief for dividends paid by domestic firms to domestic households. This result holds for fairly general...

Gegenwärtig wird eine Abschaffung bzw. Einschränkung der 620-DM-Beschäftigungsverhältnisse diskutiert. Dr. Clemens Fuest und Professor Bernd Huber analysieren die möglichen Auswirkungen für den Arbeitsmarkt und das Sozialsystem und schlagen alternativ eine beschäftigungsfreundliche Reform...

Seit einigen Jahren setzen auch deutsche Unternehmen zunehmend Aktienoptionen als *" Entlohnungsinstrument ein. Wie werden Aktienoptionen gegenwärtig steuerlich behandelt? Besteht im Zuge der Steuerreform ein steuerpolitischer Handlungsbedarf?