Wenn das Bundesverfassungsgericht (BVG) am 9. Dezember 2008 sein Urteil darüber verkündet, ob die geltende gesetzliche Regelung zur Pendlerpauschale verfassungswidrig ist, dann steht ihre juristische Bewertung im Vordergrund. Aktuell werden die Aufwendungen der nicht-selbständigen...

This paper analyzes the impact of pollution and abatement policy within a stochastic endogenous growth model. The agents have environmental preferences, but they neglect their individual contribution to aggregate abatement. Therefore, environmental care is done by the government and financed via...

We show in a two-period world with endogenous savings and two assets, one of them exhibiting a stochastic return that an interest adjusted income tax is optimal. This tax leaves a safe component of interest income tax free and taxes the excess return with a special tax rate. There is no trade...