Taxes on inheritances may induce heirs to discontinue family firms. Becausefirm dissolution incurs transaction costs, a preferential tax treatment of transferredfamily businesses seems to be desirable from a macroeconomic viewpoint.The support of dynastic succession, however, entails also a cost...

Effective from 2008, Germany´s top marginal income tax rate rises from 42 to 45 per cent. However, sole proprietorships and partnerships can opt for a preferential tax rate of 28.25 per cent for retained profits are taxed again upon distribution (§ 34a EStG-E). If they do so, profits are taxed...

This paper introduces wealth-dependent time preference into a simplemodel of endogenous growth. The model generates adjustment dynamics in linewith the historical facts on savings and economic growth in Europe from the HighMiddle Ages to today. Along a virtuous cycle of development more wealth...

In diesem Beitrag geht es um Theoriepluralismus. Nicht, um ihn wieder einmal gegen die altpositivistische Idee der einen Wahrheit zu verteidigen oder ihn gegen eine wissenschaftspolitisch besonders erfolgreiche, hegemoniale Koalition in Stellung zu bringen (was freilich immer wieder ein guter...