Durch das Inkrafttreten des Brennstoffemissionshandelsgesetzes im November 2019 ist es notwendig geworden das Klimaschutzgesetz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalens vom 29. Januar 2013 anzupassen und diese neuen gesetzlichen Regelungen in Landesrecht zu überführen. Der Gesetzentwurf zur Neufassung...

Wer umverteilen will, muss die richtigen Instrumente wählen. Eingriffe in der Marktphase sind teilweise wenig zielgenau und können die Funktionsfähigkeit von Märkten beeinträchtigen. Das hat der Berliner Mietendeckel gezeigt: Der Eingriff in die Preisbildung am Mietmarkt führte zu einer...

Durch das Inkrafttreten des Brennstoffemissionshandelsgesetzes im November 2019 ist es notwendig geworden das Klimaschutzgesetz des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalens vom 29. Januar 2013 anzupassen und diese neuen gesetzlichen Regelungen in Landesrecht zu überführen. Der Gesetzentwurf zur Neufassung...

We present a bargaining model of the interaction between a government and interest groups in which, unlike most existing models, neither side is assumed to have all the bargaining power. The government finds it optimal to constrain itself in the use of transfer policies to improve its bargaining...

Judith Niehues und Maximilian Stockhausen, Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft, Köln, weisen darauf hin, dass in der Wahrnehmung der Bevölkerungsmehrheit die Ungleichheit in Einkommen und Vermögen seit Jahren steigt. Ein Abgleich mit den verfügbaren Daten zeige jedoch, dass die Daten weder ein...

I show that a stylized fact on the decades-long stability in preferences for income redistribution – which has surprised public economists, given the spike in inequality – masks a divergence across parties. I then demonstrate that the widening divide owes to preferences sorting rather than...

Education and income are strong predictors of health and longevity. In the last 20 years many efforts have been made to understand if these relationships are causal and what the possible role of policy should be as a result. The evidence from various studies is ambiguous: the effects of...

We study the political consequences of a major land reform in Italy, which split large estates and transferred land to small owners. Using a panel spatial regression discontinuity design, we show that the reform benefited the incumbent Christian Democrat party. The electoral benefits persist for...

Wie nie zuvor ist die junge Generation sozial tief zerrissen: Hinsichtlich Gesundheit, Bildung, Wohnen, Freizeit und Teilhabe verschärfen sich die Unterschiede. Während Kinder aus wohlhabenden, reichen und hyperreichen Familien materielle Sicherheit genießen und eine Führungsposition in der...

The COVID-19 crisis has amplified the urgency of addressing together the dual challenges of inequality and environmental degradation. This paper contributes to the debate on the inequalities-environment nexus by analysing the consequences of the environmental degradation and of environmental...

Both the U.S. and the EU are an economic union: There is a single market for goods, capital, finance, and labor. That is, there is free mobility of goods and services, physical and financial capital, and labor among the member countries of the union. Nevertheless, there is much higher degree of...

"The crisis of distribution is one of the longest standing and complicated issues facing human society. Imbued with social, political, historic, and cultural elements, it varies significantly across different countries as a result of all these factors. As an emerging economy which transferred...

Most populist regimes in Latin American countries used trade policy to redistribute income, despite being less efficient than other redistribution schemes such as transfers financed with an income tax. Often, this outcome is attributed to the lack of fiscal capacity in Latin American countries....

The evolution of the ratio of direct taxation (characterized by progressive rates) over indirect and payroll taxation (characterized by flat rates) is examined together with its distributional consequences for the Bottom 50%, Middle 40% and Top 10% shares of income. Oscillations of this ratio...

Die vorzeitige komplette und ersatzlose Abschaffung des Solidaritätszuschlags ist mehr noch als die schrittweise Abschaffung des Solidaritätszuschlags kritisch zu sehen. Das gilt erstens aus verteilungspolitischer Sicht. Da nahezu das gesamte Aufkommen des Solidaritätszuschlags von der oberen...

This paper investigates whether EU redistributive policies improved the public attitude toward European integration, both in terms of public opinion and in terms of political preferences. We build a new dataset combining data from the European Social Survey, different data sources for political...

This paper explores how support for radical right populist parties may be shaped by new measures of deprivation and inequality based on growth-incidence-curves, gauging growth in real household income across a country’s income deciles and calculating a given decile's gains relative to the...