Covid-19 crisis: Demand deficiencies dominate in the short-run. Our VoxEU column: voxeu.org/article/demand… Almut Balleer Peter Zorn Sebastian Link

Who Should Bear the Burden of Covid-19 Related Fiscal Pressure? An Optimal Income Taxation Perspective | Mehmet Ayaz / Fricke, Lea / Clemens Fuest / Dominik Sachs | ifo.de/publikationen/… #EconTwitter

New CEPR Discussion Paper DP16713 Who should bear the burden of COVID-19 related fiscal pressure? An optimal income taxation perspective Mehmet Ayaz Universität München, Lea Fricke Universität St.Gallen (HSG), Clemens Fuest ifo Institut @CESifoGroup, Dominik Sachs ow.ly/j4ST50GM9Wo

Growing fiscal pressure reduces the optimal degree of income tax progression. The reason is that raising revenue and redistribution are competing tax policy objectives.

Nice thread by Clemens Fuest on our joint paper "Who Should Bear the Burden of COVID-19 Related Fiscal Pressure? An Optimal Income Taxation Perspective" with Dominik Sachs and Mehmet Ayaz which has been accepted for publication in the European Economic Review.

I am happy to organize this event on economic policy consulting Universität St.Gallen (HSG) together with Nadia Myohl & Peter Kress

Very nice and informative discussion on economic policy consulting at the example of health economics with Sarah Wyss, Lars P Feld, Beatrice Mäder & Sandro Stöckli. And great moderation of my PhD colleague Nadia Myohl

I'm happy to announce that my article "Till taxes keep us apart? The impact of the marriage tax on the marriage rate" has been published by International Tax and Public Finance! A short🧵

Very excited that our paper "Downward Revision of Investment Decisions after Corporate Tax Hikes" is now forthcoming in the AEJ:EP 🥳 I really enjoyed the ifo Institut internal collaboration with Andreas Peichl, Sebastian, and Paul 🙂 Thread to the paper: x.com/ManuelMenkhoff…

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Einnahmen aus CO2 Preis zurückgeben ist richtig, aber Klimageld ist das falsche Instrument. Man sollte verzerrende Steuern senken statt Lump Sum Transfer zu verteilen. Hoher Verwaltungsaufwand für neues Instrument ist ebenfalls überflüssig, erläutern Dominik Sachs und ich hier:

In diesem FAZ-Artikel skizzieren Clemens Fuest und ich eine Alternative zum Klimageld, welche sowohl Verteilungs- als auch Arbeitsanreizeffekte berücksichtigt und eine zielgerichtetere Entlastung als beim klassischen Klimageld anstrebt. faz.net/aktuell/wirtsc… 1/15