An income inequality measure satisfies the Pigou-Dalton transfer principle if progressive transfers decrease income inequality. When transfers cause transaction costs, one can trace out the maximum leakage such that the transfer pays at the margin. An income inequality measure is leaky-bucket...

Leaky-bucket transactions can be regarded as income transfers allowing for transaction costs. In its most rudimentary form, leaky-bucket transactions trace out the maximum “leakage” of transaction costs before income inequality is exacerbated, or—alternatively—before a welfare loss is...

Die Arbeit von Deffains und Demougin betrachtet ein Modell mit zwei Produktionsfaktoren, Arbeit und Kapital, einem Konsumgut, welches mit zwei Technologien, einer mit ausschließlichem Kapitaleinsatz und einer mit additiv-separablem Arbeits- und Kapitaleinsatz, produziert werden könne, und zwei...

Common ratio effects should be ruled out if subjects' preferences satisfy compound independence, reduction of compound lotteries, and coalescing. In other words, at least one of these axioms should be violated in order to generate a common ratio effect. Relying on a simple experiment, we...

Schumpeter took a great interest in actual fiscal policy, first, during ?9?8 and ?9?9 to rescue Austria’s economic position and currency in the aftermath of World War i. These reform proposals pertain to situations of extreme economic misery. For reforms of the fiscal system under normal...

This paper studies the perception of fairness of the income-tax splitting benefit of married couples under the German income-tax régime using interview data from 219 North German employees. The great majority of subjects disapprove of the present boon of tax splitting, which is considered as...