We examine whether corporate money in politics benefits or hurts labor using the 2010 Supreme Court ruling Citizens United, which rendered bans on political election spending unconstitutional. In difference-in-difference analyses, affected states experience increases in both capital and labor...

Inequality and the Size of US State Government -- Inequality and Government Size: A Political Economy Theory and OECD Evidence -- Inequality and Government Debt -- Population Aging and the Composition of Taxes: A Political Economy Theory -- Population Aging and the Composition of Taxes: Evidence...

Einführung -- Allgemeine Regelungen des Einkommensteuerrechts -- Geldentwertung und Nominalwertprinzip -- Zufluss von Einnahmen -- Einnahmearten des § 20 EStG -- Besondere Entgelte und Vorteile sowie die Veräußerungstatbestände im Sinne des §20 Abs. 2 EStG.-Spekulationsgeschäfte --...

The book suggests a novel way how the effects of tax reforms especially in the field of capital income taxation can be measured by means of dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. Using a model calibrated to the German economy, the author evaluates and quantifies the effects of...