TY - RPRT A1 - Petersen, Hans-Georg T1 - Income taxation and the choice of the tax rate schedule BT - sacrifice principles and "just" tax rates T2 - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge N2 - In the history of economic thoughts the problem of a "just" tax rate structure has played an important role. The paper reconsiders the discussions of the last two centuries and sheds additional light on the concrete tax schedules using the more recent methods of tax theory. Even if the substitution effects which play an important role in the theory of optimal taxation are neglected, the slope in the diminishing marginal utility of income causes tax rate structures reaching from accelerated progression to delayed regression. Interestingly the principle of equal relative sacrifice combined with a Bernoulli utility function yields a delayed progression, which is connected with a negative income tax. T3 - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge - 62 KW - income tax KW - sacrifice principle KW - tax rate schedule KW - cardinal utility function Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53924 SN - 0948-7549 SN - 1864-1431 IS - 62 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Petersen, Hans-Georg T1 - Poverty, human capital, life-cycle and the tax and transfer bases BT - the role of education for development and international competition T2 - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge N2 - The paper is based on an individual life-cycle model, which describes the purely economic components of human capital. The present value of human capital is determined by all future income flows, which at the same time constitute the individual as well as the total tax base of a nation. Therefore, the income of the productive population determines the total tax revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of the education system (by private and public education investments) determines the quality of the human capital stock as well as the future gross income flows. The costs of public goods and the transfer expenditures have to be financed from the total tax revenue, which also affects the individual tax burden via the specific tax bases and tax rates. Especially the redistribution of income is connected with serious disincentives, influencing the preferences for work and leisure as well as for consumption and saving. An efficient tax and transfer system being accompanied by an education system financed in public private partnership, which treats equally labor and capital income, sets positive incentives for the formation of human, financial, and real capital. An important prerequisite for a sustainable growth process is the efficient design of the social security system, being based on the family as well as a collective risk equalization scheme. If that system is diminishing absolute poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality primary, secondary and tertiary education programs for the children, the transfer expenditure would decrease and the tax bases (income and consumption) increase, lowering the burden on the productive population. For the first time, this micro model presented in this paper pools all the relevant variables for development within a simple life-cycle model, which can also be used for a powerful analysis of the current failures in existing tax and transfer schemes and fruitful empirical investigations. Hence, an efficient tax and transfer scheme strongly contributes to an improved national position in the global competition. T3 - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge - 63 KW - poverty KW - human capital KW - life-cycle analysis KW - lifetime income KW - education KW - taxation KW - transfers KW - redistribution KW - risk equalization Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53968 SN - 1864-1431 SN - 0948-7549 IS - 63 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Andree, Kai T1 - Collusion in spatially separated markets with quantity competition N2 - This paper develops the incentives to collude in a model with spatially separated markets and quantity setting firms. We find that increases in transportation costs stabilize the collusive agreement. We also show that, the higher the demand in both markets the less likely will collusion be sustained. Gross and Holahan (2003) use a similar model with price setting firms, we compare their results with ours to analyze the impact of the mode of competition on sustainability of collusion. Further we analyze the impact of collusion on social welfare and find that collusion may be welfare enhancing. T3 - Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge - 104 Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-55927 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Burdack, Doreen T1 - The economic impact of water restrictions on water-dependent business in South East Queensland, Australia T2 - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge T3 - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge - 65 Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-55947 SN - 1864-1431 SN - 0948-7549 IS - 65 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Reilich, Julia T1 - Returns to education and smoking BT - evidence from Germany N2 - Looking at smoking-behavior it can be shown that there are differences concerning the time-preference-rate. Therefore this has an effect on the optimal schooling decision in the way that we appear a lower average human capital level for smokers. According to a higher time-preference-rate additionally we suppose a higher return to education for smokers who go further on education. With our empirical findings we can confirm the presumptions. We use interactions-terms to regress the average rate of return with IV. Therefore we obtain that smokers have a significantly higher average return to education than non-smokers. T3 - Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge - 103 Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-53883 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Zenker, Juliane T1 - Staatsverschuldung in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland BT - Theoretische Grundlagen – Praktische Probleme T2 - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge T3 - Finanzwissenschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge - 64 Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-55933 SN - 0948-7549 SN - 1864-1431 IS - 64 ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Schöler, Klaus T1 - Stadtstruktur und Umwelt BT - Kritik einer romantischen Idee N2 - Inhalt 1. Einführung 2. Suburbanisierung und Natur 3. Arbeiten und Wohnen 4. Verkehr und Klima 5. Klima und Politik 6. Fazit T3 - Volkswirtschaftliche Diskussionsbeiträge - 102 Y1 - 2011 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus-52608 ER -