Das ifo Institut hat im Juni 2020 eine Prognose zu den Auswirkungen vorgelegt, die sich auf das deutsche Ertragsteueraufkommen durch eine Umsetzung der OECD-Vorschläge zur Neuverteilung der Besteuerungsrechte ergeben könnten. In ihrem Basisszenario geht die Studie von einem Zuwachs von rd. 600...

Der Beitrag von Kulemann und Mandler in dieser Ausgabe des ifo Schnelldienstes enthält neben einer positiven Würdigung des Gutachtens auch einige kritische Anmerkungen. Die Kritik bezieht sich im Wesentlichen auf drei Aspekte: die Auswahl der Parameter im Basisszenario, die Berücksichtigung...

Corporate tax laws vary significantly between different jurisdictions. Over the past four decades, governments globally competed for business activity by lowering statutory and effective corporate tax rates. Many governments provide special tax incentives for businesses to invest and expand...

Financial services firms play a key role in the European economy. The efficiency and profitability of these firms and the competition among them have an impact on allocation of savings, financing of investment, economic growth, the stability of the financial system and the transmission of...

In this article, an updated approach to investigate the effects of demographic fac- tors on economic growth is proposed. The initial hypothesis was that these factors significantly affected production proportions, determining development vectors. The predictable shifts in production dynamics are...

Die Global Tax Expenditures Database (https://gted.net/) erfasst nationale Berichte zu Steuervergünstigungen für 101 Länder für den Zeitraum ab 1990 bis heute. Auf Basis dieser Daten wird die Entwicklung von Steuervergünstigungen in den 38 OECD-Ländern zwischen 1999 und heute betrachtet....

The stability of the labour share of income is a fundamental feature of macroeconomic models, with broad implications for the shape of the production function, inequality, and macroeconomic dynamics. However, empirically, this share has been slowly declining in many countries for several...

How do policy makers help jobseekers transition out of unemployment? As unemployment is costly for the individual and inefficient for society, this is a question of utmost importance. Today, many OECD countries rely on active labor market policies (ALMPs) in their efforts to easen jobseekers'...

Consumption taxes are a pivotal yet largely unaddressed policy tool that shape the income distribution and potentially thwart the redistributive goals of social policy. Previous research showed how consumption taxes can elevate inequality and poverty on the macro level. However, different...