We nowcast the economic effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and related lock-down measures in the UK and then analyse the distributional and budgetary effects of the estimated individual income shocks, distinguishing between the effects of automatic stabilisers and those of the emergency policy...

This paper proposes an approach to assess the extent of automatic fiscal stabilisation of aggregate household disposable income after a specific shock. The approach is based on the national account identity of household disposable income and elements of the OECD methodology to cyclically adjust...

Building on the automatic fiscal stabilisers literature, this paper assesses how automatic stabilisers have evolved over the past two decades by analysing changes in the personal income tax and social benefit systems. In three-quarters of the 35 OECD countries analysed, indicators of the...

In dieser Arbeit werden die Auswirkungen der in den Jahren 1999 bis 2005 durchgeführten Steuer- und Sozialreformen auf die automatische Stabilisierungswirkung der Einnahmen und Ausgaben des staatlichen Gesamthaushalts in Deutschland untersucht. Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind dabei sowohl die...