The Measurement of tax Progression -- I. Introduction -- II. Some Basic Remarks on Taxation -- II.1 Foundations -- II.2 Data -- II.3 Principles of Taxation -- III. Tax Progression -- III.1 Preliminary Definition -- III.2 Reasons for Progressive Taxation of Incomes -- IV. Measuring the Degree of...

1 Summary -- 2 Background and Literature Review -- 2.1 The Availability Doctrine -- 2.2 The Early Theory -- 2.3 Information-Based Theories -- 2.4 Summary of Credit Rationing Theory -- 3 A Theory of Credit Rationing -- 3.1 A Model of Bank Operation and Loan Supply -- 3.2 A Model of Borrower...

What Should We Have Done? -- Towards an Evaluation of the Costs and Benefits of a (Dis-)Inflationary Policy in the Federal Republic of Germany -- Price and Quantity Variability under Stagflation -- The Contributions of Business Cycle Theories to the Explanation of the Actual Economic Slowdown --...