theory. While labor market institutions have a large effect on output volatility, they do not seem to have much of an effect …

As the link between tax compliance and tax morale is found to be robust, finding the determinants of tax morale can … help to understand and fight tax evasion. In this paper we analyze the effect of progressive taxation on tax morale in a …. First, an individual's tax morale is higher, the more progressive the tax schedule is. Second, the impact of tax …

concerning the health effects of the consumption of fat and of healthy goods. The level of the fat tax is determined through ….A fraction of the fat tax proceeds is "earmarked" to reduce health insurance premiums while the remaining fraction finances a … welfare, anticipating the induced political equilibrium. We show that the fat tax in the political equilibrium is always lower …

Barriers to outsourcing that are being currently implemented in the US effectively tax its companies who "export" jobs … oligopolistic context. We find that while an outsourcing tax favors domestic workers by causing firms to switch to a greater use of … effects, which inform us about the conditions under which such a tax achieves its stated objective. Next, we consider the …

This paper investigates to what extent the tax and transfer systems in Europe protect households at different income … find that the aggregate redistributive effect of the tax and transfer systems increases in response to the shocks. But the …

rising poverty. As the crisis gained momentum, the action of automatic stabilisation mechanisms built into the national tax …

study the economic effects of introducing two elements of a fiscal union: Firstly, an EU-wide tax and transfer system and … secondly, an EU-wide system of fiscal equalisation. Using the European tax-benefit calculator EUROMOD, we exploit … tax and transfer systems by a European system would lead to significant redistributive effects both within and across …