Browsing by Author "Voigts, Simon"

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2014-10-20Buch

A MacroeconomicPerspective on theEquivalence of Taxes Paidby Employers andEmployees

Voigts, Simon

Conventional wisdom states that the statutory split of payroll taxa- tion between firms and workers is of no macroeconomic relevance, because the tax incidence is fully determined by the market structure. This pa- per ...
2013-03-07Buch

A Transfer Mechanism for a Monetary Union

Engler, Philipp; Voigts, Simon

We show in a dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework that the introduction of a common currency by a group of countries with only partially integrated goods markets, incomplete ?nancial markets and no labor migration ...
2014-01-27Buch

Fiscal Devaluation in a Monetary Union

Engler, Philipp; Ganelli, Giovanni; Tervala, Juha; Voigts, Simon

Between 1999 and the onset of the economic crisis in 2008 real ex-change rates in Greece, Ireland, Italy, Portugal and Spain appreciated relative to the rest of the euro area. This divergence in competitiveness was reflected ...
2016-02-24Buch

Measuring the benefit fromreducing incomeinequality in terms of GDP

Voigts, Simon

Given that well-being is a concave function of income, inequality is ineffcient from a utilitarian perspective. This paper proposes a way to express the utilitarian benefit from redistributive reforms in terms of out- put, ...
2016-08-18Buch

Revisiting the effect of VAT changes on output

Voigts, Simon

Standard models used in academic and institutional research implement the value-added tax (VAT) as a simple consumption tax levied on consumers, implying that tax changes instantaneously translate into consumer price ...
2017-07-19Dissertation

Three Essays on Taxation and Macroeconomic Dynamics

Voigts, Simon

Diese Dissertation untersucht, wie sich die Ausgestaltung eines Steuersystems – bzw. dessen Änderungen – auf die Dynamik von makroökonomischen Variablen auswirken kann. Die Analyse wird mit Hilfe von allgemeinen ...