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In der WTO-Agrarhandelsrunde von Doha geht es neben dem Abbau von Exportsubventionen und der Abschaffung von Marktzugangsbeschränkungen auch um die weitere Reduktion von internen Subventionen, die als produktions- und damit handelsverzerrend eingestuft sind. Eine Gruppe von Ländern, darunter...
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Die Autoren beobachten, dass es bei der Ableitung der Lohnsteuereinnahmen für das Folgejahr aus makroökonomischen Größen immer wieder zu merklichen Abweichungen kommt, die im Zusammenhang mit bedeutenden Änderungen im Steuerrecht und deren Quantifizierung besonders ausgeprägt sein können....
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Dieser Beitrag geht der Frage nach, ob es aus ökonomischer Sicht zu rechtfertigen ist, dass in Deutschland der allgemeine Steuerzahler die Kosten für die an Spieltagen im Profifußball anfallenden Polizeieinsätze finanziert. Diese Frage wird zwar in Politik und Öffentlichkeit sowie im...
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Comparing Sweden to other EU countries, labour force participation rates of older individuals and females are high. These facts are consistent with the idea that institutional design matters: access to child care, paid parental leave, and a tax system with individual rather than household income...
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The paper studies a fiscal policy instrument that can reduce fiscal distortions, without affecting revenues, in a politically viable way. The instrument is a private contract (tax buyout), offered by the government to each individual citizen, whereby the citizen can choose to pay a fixed price...
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Tax and benefit systems in the enlarged EU vary significantly in size and structure. We examine how taxes and benefits … model, which simulates taxes and benefits for representative samples of household micro-data and through a common framework … and composition of incomes, and the effect of taxes and benefits on poverty and inequality. …
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This paper studies regional output asymmetries following U.S. federal tax shocks. We estimate a vector autoregressive model for each U.S. state, utilizing the exogenous tax shock series recently proposed by Romer and Romer (2010) and find considerable variations: estimated output multipliers lie...
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Company taxes and taxes on highly skilled labour both influence the attractiveness of a particular region as a location …
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This paper presents an applied general equilibrium model for Germany. The model integrates specific labour market institutions in an otherwise standard general equilibrium framework. There are sectoral wage negotiations for two skill types of workers between firms and trade unions. The...
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redistributive tool in democratic societies. Generally, left-wing parties are more supportive of progressive taxes and redistribution … institutions. Yet, the internationalisation of capital markets has made it difficult to levy high income taxes as it might cause …
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