This paper examines the effects of increasing marginal tax rates on labour supply in a setting in which workers may hold two jobs and may be constrained in their weekly hours on their main jobs. A panel data, multi-equation labour supply model is estimated with correction for tax system...

In this paper we use a dynamic structural life-cycle model to analyze the employment,fiscal and welfare effects induced by unemployment insurance. The model features a detailedspecification of the tax and transfer system, including unemployment insurance benefitswhich depend on an individual's...

This paper provides an empirical analysis of the potential effects of a proposed tax reform in Serbia on poverty and vulnerable groups. The essence of the proposal is transferring the tax burden from wages to personal consumption, thus alleviating one production factor and therefore stimulating...

This paper presents a behavioral finance model of the exchange rate. Agents forecast theexchange rate by means of very simple rules. They can choose between three groups offorecasting rules: fundamentalist, extrapolative and momentum rules. Agents using afundamentalist rule are not able to...

In der Literatur werden zahlreiche Versuche unternommen, das Investitionsverhalten von Unternehmen durch die Anwendung ökonometrischer Modelle zu verstehen. Die Spezifikation dieser Modelle stützt sich in der jüngeren Vergangenheit auf zwei Theoriebereiche. Zum einen ist dies die neue...

The Polish tax and benefit system is presented in the context of a recently developedmicrosimulation model, SIMPL. The model allows simulating direct taxes, social contributionsand public benefits in Poland for the years 2003 and 2005...>br>

Es erscheint mir in der Tat „Eulen nach Athen tragen”, wenn ich zum Geburtstag von Rolf Kreibich einen Festvortrag über „Zukunftsforschung im Spannungsfeld von Visio-nen und Alltagshandeln” halte, wo doch dies seit Jahren sein ureigenes Arbeitsgebiet ist und das seines von ihm...

The report contains the documentation of the five future workshops which were performed bythe IZT within the framework of the German Research Dialogue “Futur” during the last quarterof 2001.The general aim of these workshops consisted in supporting the work of the so called Futur“focus...