Dynamic Preferences, Choice Mechanisms, and Welfare
In: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems Ser. v.462
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In: Lecture Notes in Economics and Mathematical Systems Ser. v.462
In: Journal of economics, Band 124, Heft 2, S. 121-137
ISSN: 1617-7134
In: Review of economics: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Band 61, Heft 3, S. 241-261
ISSN: 2366-035X
SummaryIn Germany, donations to charitable institutions can be deducted from the taxable income. The government subsidizes each donated Euro by the household′s marginal tax rate. Unfortunately, this system has some serious shortcomings. Therefore, the existing tax deduction of donations should be replaced by a uniform tax abatement rate. Such a reformed system would be more transparent than the existing system and it would lead to a price of donating that is equal for all households. Furthermore, the empirical analysis of this study has shown that for an abatement rate of roughly 50 % a positive (though small) fiscal effect occurs.
In: Journal of institutional and theoretical economics: JITE, Band 162, Heft 2, S. 291
ISSN: 1614-0559
In: Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, Band 160, Heft 2, S. 294
In: Stiftung & Sponsoring: das Magazin für Non-Profit-Management und -Marketing, Heft 6
ISSN: 2366-2913
In: Applied Economics, Band 39, Heft 1, S. 95-107
Numerous quality-adjusted hedonic price-trend studies based on computer prices have provided support to widely held suspicions that officially released price indices are not accurately measuring the price declines occurring in many information technology (IT) products. If verifiable, then general price inflation is being overestimated and, consequently, real GDP is being underestimated. Existing evidence, however, is inconclusive. First, empirical findings for IT-products other than computers are extremely rare and, secondly, estimation bias is inherent in the hedonic regression technique most commonly employed. This paper presents an unbiased method together with an estimated quality-adjusted price trend for laser printers (1993-2004).
In: Der Staat: Zeitschrift für Staatslehre und Verfassungsgeschichte, deutsches und europäisches öffentliches Recht, Band 47, Heft 1, S. 160
ISSN: 0038-884X
Over the last three decades the supply of economic statistics has vastly improved. Unfortunately, statistics on regional price levels (sub-national purchasing power parities) have been exempt from this positive trend, even though they are indispensable for meaningful spatial comparisons of regional output, income, wages, productivity, standards of living, and poverty. To improve the situation, our paper demonstrates that a highly disaggregated and reliable regional price index can be compiled from data that already exist. We use the micro price data that have been collected for Germany's Consumer Price Index in May 2016. For the computation we introduce a multi-stage version of the Country- Product-Dummy method. The unique quality of our price data set allows us to depart from previous spatial price comparisons and to compare only exactly identical products. We find that the price levels of the 402 counties and cities of Germany are largely driven by the cost of housing and to a much lesser degree by the prices of goods and services. The overall price level in the most expensive region, Munich, is about 27 percent higher than in the cheapest region. Our results also reveal strong spatial autocorrelation.