Die Arbeit analysiert die finanzpolitische Entwicklung der Jahre 1989 und 1990 in Österreich. Neben einer gesamtwirtschaftlichen Betrachtung des öffentlichen Sektors sowie der öffentlichen Haushalte von Ländern, Gemeinden und Sozialversicherungsträgern bildet der Bundeshaushalt traditionell...

International policy coordination has been one of the fastgrowing research topics in open-economy macroeconomics in the eighties. Recommendations of economic theory towards coordination of macropolicy at a supranational level, taken up as a guideline in the negotiations of the leading economic...

There is little doubt that the step towards a monetary union in Europe will increase both the distortionary effects of existing differences in national tax systems and the intensity of tax competition for internationally mobile commodity and factor tax bases. This paper discusses selected issues...

Die neue Arbeitsteilung im Europäischen Binnenmarkt umfaßt auch die Zuordnung finanzpolitischer Kompetenzen an die supranationale EU-Ebene zulasten der Gebietskörperschaftsebenen in den Mitgliedsstaaten der Gemeinschaft. Aus dem EU-Vertrag lassen sich konstitutive Elemente eines...

This volume collects three independent contributions which discuss the role of computable general equilibrium (CGE) modelling in both research and teaching. The first paper by John Chipman suggests that statistical methods could be incorporated into CGE analysis. He argues that this would allow...

The paper comments on the introduction of a final withholding tax on certain forms of capital income in Austria in the early nineties. Economic and legal problems of the reform measures are discussed and they* are appraised as policy responses to weak points of the traditional comprehensive...

Das Bundesverfassungsgericht erklärte in zwei Entscheidungen, 1990 den Kinderfreibetrag und 1992 den Grundfreibetrag des deutschen Einkommensteuergesetzes für zu niedrig und damit im Widerspruch zum Grundgesetz. In der vorliegenden Arbeit werden die international üblichen tarifpolitischen...

An optimal taxation approach is employed to discuss the interaction between factor and commodity taxes for a small open economy when both profit-earning firms and domestic consumers are imperfectly mobile internationally. In this framework, we demonstrate two main results: first, a...

The paper discusses the main arguments for destination- versus origin-based commodity taxation in the European Community's Internal Market. Destination-based solutions necessarily distort commodity trade in the Community because final con-sumer purchases can only be taxed in the origin country....

An optimal taxation approach is employed to discuss the interaction between factor and commodity taxes for a small open economy when profit-earning firms are mobile internationally. In this framework, a destination-based commodity tax is shown to be superior to an origin-based VAT from an...