The idea of enhanced fiscal integration in Europe is a key concept in overcoming the sovereign debt crisis in Europe and stabilising the European Currency Union. Various ideas regarding the design of a fiscal…
Das Bundesministerium für Arbeit und Soziales (BAMS) vergibt im Rahmen der Erstellung des fünften Armuts- und Reichtumsberichts ein Forschungsprojekt mit de, Titel Analyse der Verteilung von Einkommen und Vermögen…
The aim of this study is to analyze fiscal policy in the euro area under the current institutional architecture of the Eurozone. In the first part, it will be investigated to what extent automatic stabilizers have…
We study the effects of property taxes on housing markets and municipalities. Despite a broad and comprehensive literature on the incidence of property taxes, there is still neither an empirical nor a theoretical…
We analyze different alternatives how a common unemployment insurance system for the euro area (EA) could be designed and assess their effectiveness to act as an insurance device in the presence of asymmetric…
This study, based on the insights from the public finance literature, is to identify the key deficits of the German fiscal equalization system. The state of the literature on key questions and controversies will…
Good tax policy fundamentally depends on knowledge about the effects of taxation on prices and economic behavior of individuals and firms. For example, income taxes only serve their purpose if they do not yield a…
The objective of the project is to develop an econometric structural equilibrium search model that can be used for ex-ante simulations of the introduction of a uniform minimum wage in Germany. The target of the…
This study assesses individual and fiscal returns to educational investments in Germany, based on the ZEW microsimulation model. Tertiary education is compared to higher secondary and vocational education and…