Das EU Tax Obervatory ist ein unabhängiges Forschungslabor und an der Paris School of Economics angesiedelt ist. Das DIW ist der nationale Kooperationspartner des EU Tax Obervatory. Das EU Tax Obervatory führt innovative Forschung im Bereich der Besteuerung durch, trägt zu einer demokratischen und integrativen Debatte über die Zukunft der Besteuerung bei und fördert den Dialog zwischen der...
The EU Tax Observatory is an independent research laboratory hosted at the Paris School of Economics and DIW is the national cooperation partner. It conducts innovative research on taxation, contributes to a democratic and inclusive debate on the future of taxation, and fosters a dialogue between the scientific community, civil society, and policymakers in the European Union and worldwide.
Entwicklung eines dynamischen Rahmens um die Effekte vermögenspolitischer Instrumente in der kurzen, mittleren und längeren Frist darstellen und vergleichen zu können. Untersucht werden u.a. eine allgemeine Vermögenssteuer, eine soziale Erbschaft und eine soziale Dividende.
Development of a dynamic framework to depict and compare the effects of wealth policy instruments in the short, medium, and long term. Among the examined instruments are a general wealth tax, a social inheritance, and a social dividend.
Business cycle models often abstract from persistent household heterogeneity, despite its potentially significant implications for macroeconomic fluctuations and policy. We show empirically that the likelihood of being persistently financially constrained decreases with cognitive skills and increases with overconfidence thereon. Guided by this and other micro evidence, we add persistent heterogeneity ...
How does a monetary union alter the impact of business cycle shocks at the household level? We develop a Heterogeneous Agent New Keynesian model of two countries (HANK) and show in closed form that a monetary union shifts the adjustment to a shock horizontally across countries, within the brackets of the union-wide wealth distribution, rather than vertically, that is, across the brackets of the union-wide ...
This paper studies external sovereign bonds as an asset class. We compile a new database of 266,000 monthly prices of foreign-currency government bonds traded in London and New York between 1815 (the Battle of Waterloo) and 2016, covering up to 91 countries. Our main insight is that, as in equity markets, the returns on external sovereign bonds have been sufficiently high to compensate for risk. Real ...