Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/48686 
Year of Publication: 
2011
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2011: Die Ordnung der Weltwirtschaft: Lektionen aus der Krise - Session: Fiscal Policy and Fiscal Policy Reform No. C2-V1
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Abstract: 
This paper empirically investigates distributional and welfare effects of Germany's year 2000 tax reform. The reform is simulated in an ex-ante behavioral microsimulation approach. Dead weight loss of capital income taxation is estimated in a structural model for household savings and asset demand applied to German survey data. Significant reductions in tax rates result in income gains, especially in higher tax brackets, whereby income inequality increases, in particular in East-Germany. Moreover, households increase savings and alter the structure of asset demand due to shifts in relative asset prices. As a result, utility losses reduce welfare effects for almost all households.
Subjects: 
Capital income taxation
household savings
asset demand
welfare effects
JEL: 
G11
H24
H31
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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