Recent efforts to reduce international tax evasion focus on information exchange with tax havens. Using bilateral bank data for 1397 countrypairs in a balanced quarterly panel from 2003:I to 2017:IV, we first show that information-on-request treaties with tax havens reduce bank deposits in tax havens by 27.5%. Second, also deposits from tax havens in high tax countries decline after such treaties are ...
We decompose permanent earnings risk into contributions from hours and wage shocks. To distinguish between hours shocks, modeled as innovations to the marginal disutility of work, and labor supply reactions to wage shocks we formulate a life-cycle model of consumption and labor supply. Both permanent wage and hours shocks are important to explain earnings risk, but wage shocks have greater relevance. ...
This paper examines the dynamics of wealth and income inequality along the business cycle and assesses how they are related to fluctuations in the functional income distribution. In a panel estimation for OECD countries between 1970 and 2016 we find that on average income inequality - measured by the Gini coefficient - is countercyclical and also shows a significant association with the capital share. ...
Geopolitische Risiken zuletzt stark gestiegen – Deutsche Volkswirtschaft ist aufgrund ihrer starken Verflechtung mit dem Ausland von geopolitischen Schocks betroffen - Effekte sind allerdings überschaubar – Bessere ökonomische und politische Vernetzung Deutschlands europa- und weltweit könnte Auswirkungen externer Schocks abfedern Nach der Tötung des iranischen Generals ...
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Wächst oder sinkt die Ungleichheit in Deutschland? Das kommt darauf an, welchen Indikator man betrachtet. Schaut man auf das Haushaltseinkommen, ist das Urteil eindeutig. Zuerst die gute Nachricht: Gemessen an den Stundenlöhnen der Beschäftigten hat die Ungleichheit in Deutschland seit 2013 deutlich abgenommen. Der Grund ist, dass gerade die niedrigen Löhne seither stärker ...
