This article analyzes the efficiency in the provision of child care services at the municipal level and identifies the main determinants of inefficiency. We use a unique data set on the local child care expenditures in the eastern German State of Saxony. The analysis is performed in two stages....

Gutachten im Auftrag des Sächsischen Staatsministeriums der Finanzen. <br>Die kreisangehörigen Gemeinden, Kreisfreien Städte und Landkreise im Freistaat Sachsen müssen die Ausgaben, die bei der Erfüllung eigener sowie ihnen übertragener Aufgaben entstehen, selbst tragen. Dazu erhalten sie...

Gegenstand des vorliegenden Beitrages sind die Anreizeffekte des Länderfinanzausgleichs. In methodischer Hinsicht basieren die Analysen auf einem theoretischen Modell des Staatsverhaltens sowie ökonometrischen Paneldatenmodellen. Untersucht werden dabei die Anreizeffekte des...

Gegenstand der Studie ist die Ausgestaltung des deutschen Fiskalföderalismus. Es soll gezeigt werden, in welchem Umfang das Konzept des föderalen Wettbewerbs für die bundesdeutsche Finanzverfassung nutzbar gemacht werden kann. Diese Fragestellung umfasst das Verhältnis zwischen Bund und...

The paper discusses which redistributional policies are efficient when the identity of the high and low skill persons is private information. Our major purpose is to identify the more efficient policy when, presumably for administrative reasons, the policy option is confined to the choice...

Several contributions in the optimal taxation literature have emphasized that, when individuals’ preferences are not separable between leisure and other goods, it is desirable to supplement a nonlinear income tax with public provision of private goods. Moreover, it has also been shown that the...

The compensated taxable income elasticity at a given income level is proportional to the number of individuals who bunch at a convex kink point. This holds true even in the presence of optimization frictions if the jump in marginal tax rates is suciently large. In this paper we estimate bunching...

Previous literature has shown that public provision of private goods can be a welfareenhancing device in second-best settings where governments pursue redistributive goals. However, three issues have so far been neglected. First, the case for supplementing an optimal nonlinear income tax with...

The Mirrlees Review recommends that commodity taxation should in general be uniform, but with some goods consumed in conjunction with labour supply (such as child care) left untaxed. This paper examines the validity of this claim in an optimal income tax framework. Contrary to the recommendation...

The incidence and efficiency losses of taxes have usually been analyzed in isolation from public expenditures. This negligence of the expenditure side may imply a serious misperception of the effects of marginal tax rates. The reason is that part of the marginal tax may in fact be a payment for...