Calculating the welfare implications of changes to economic policy or shocks requires economists to decide on a normative criterion. One approach is to elicit the relevant moral criteria from real-world policy choices, converting a normative decision into a positive inference, as in the recent...

The rich, the poor, and the taxes they pay -- Who paid the taxes, 1966-85 -- The personal income tax -- Comprehensive income tax reform -- Erosion of the individual income tax -- The comprehensive income tax concept -- Tax reform in the United States -- The family -- Capital gains and losses --...

Do high taxes cause superstars to work less? We test this hypothesis using complete data on Hollywood movie stars' labor supply from 1927 to 2014. Changes to marginal tax rates in high tax brackets have no significant effect on the number of films a movie star makes each year. However, in years...

Im Mittelpunkt der Arbeit steht die Ausgestaltung der einkommensteuerlichen Abschreibung von beweglichen Wirtschaftsgütern (Absetzung für Abnutzung - AfA). Soweit es Zielsetzung des Steuergesetzgebers ist, ein international wettbewerbsfähiges und einfaches Steuerrecht zu verwirklichen sowie...

The tax burden on investment or companies is an important factor for the attractiveness of a country or a region. In particular, business location and investment decisions are influenced by the relative tax burdens encountered in different regions. This study presents estimates of the effective...