Wir untersuchen eine Gewinnsteuer in einer unsicheren Welt. Unser Steuersystem erlaubt einen zeitlich veränderlichen Steuersatz, aus diesem Grund wurde auch eine verallgemeinerte Zinskorrektur (ACE) eingeführt. Die Zinskorrektur ist insofern verallgemeinert, da sie einen Anteil des Produktes...

In a recent paper Loeffler/Schneider (2000) showed that introducing a tax on a financial market does not create an arbitrage opportunity...

Seit dem Jahr 2010 veröffentlicht das Statistische Amt der Europäischen Gemeinschaften spezielle Indizes für die Entwicklung administrierter Preise im Euro-Währungsgebiet. Sie umfassen Produkte, deren Preise staatlicher Einflussnahme unterliegen. Der vorliegende Beitrag präsentiert Methodik...

In this model of education, where individuals are exposed both to educational risk and to wage risk within the skilled sector, successful graduation depends both on individual effort to study and on public resources. We show that insuring the present risks is a dichotomic task: Wage risk is...

Empirical evidence suggests that people dislike ads in media products like TV programs. In such situations standard economic theory prescribes that the advertising volume can be optimally reduced by levying a tax on ads. However, making use of recent advances in the theory of Industrial...

This paper applies the theory of relational contracts to make precise the idea that because households are engaged in a repeated non-cooperative game, Pareto efficient outcomes can be supported by self interest, given the specific pattern of specialisation and exchange which exists in the...

Under uncertainty and irreversibility, real option-based models are widely accepted for assessing investment projects. So far the existing post-tax analyses do not provide a general analytical description of investor reactions towards profit tax rate changes. This paper sets out to fill part of...

This paper reviews the published literature on the definition and measurement of the administrative and compliance costs of taxation, with special reference to VAT (including evasion and fraud) in the European Union.

Our paper assesses the accuracy of individuals' tax perceptions. Based on personal interviews, we aim to find out how tax complexity affects the capability of respondents to calculate income tax liability. Tax complexity is measured by interacting multiple tax rates, applied to one or more tax...

A substantial literature examines second-best environmental policy, focusingparticularly on how the Pigouvian directive that marginal taxes should equalmarginal external harms needs to be modified in light of the preexistingdistortion due to labor income taxation. Additional literature is...