Wie viel Steuern braucht der Staat?

Die Mehrwertsteuererh?hung und m?gliche Belastungen der Bürger durch die Steuerfinanzierung von Sozialleistungen haben eine Diskussion über die H?he der Steuerquote entfacht. Gibt es eine optimale Steuerquote? Welche Anforderungen werden an den Staat gestellt? Wie ist die deutsche Steuerquote im internationalen Vergleich zu beurteilen und wie hat sie sich über einen l?ngeren Zeitraum entwickelt? Die Autoren unseres Zeitgespr?chs: Prof. Dr. Clemens Fuest, 37, ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Finanzwissenschaft an der Universit?t zu K?ln und Mitglied des Wissenschaftlichen Beirates beim Bundesministerium der Finanzen sowie Mitglied des Kronberger Kreises der Stiftung Marktwirtschaft; Johannes Becker, 28, Dipl.-Volkswirt, ist wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Seminar für Finanzwissenschaft der Universit?t zu K?ln. Prof. Dr. Jürgen Kromphardt, 72, ist Inhaber des Lehrstuhls für Wirtschaftstheorie an der Technischen Universit?t Berlin. Er war von 1999 bis 2004 Mitglied des Sachverst?ndigenrates zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung. Dr. Stefan Bach, 42, ist Mitarbeiter der Abteilung Staat im Deutschen Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung (DIW) in Berlin. Prof. Dr. Viktor Steiner, 49, ist Leiter dieser Abteilung und Professor für Empirische Wirtschaftsforschung an der Freien Universit?t Berlin.     

Does poverty lead to non-fatal unintentional injuries in rural Vietnam?

The aim of this study was to identify associations between poverty at the household level and unintentional injury morbidity. A cohort consisting of 24,874 person-time episodes, representing 24,776 people living in 5,801 households (classified into rich, middle income and poor by local authorities in 1999) was followed during 2000, in order to identify and assess non-fatal unintentional injuries. Incidence rate ratios were calculated using a Poisson regression model. The results showed that poverty was a risk factor for unintentional injuries generally. When looking at different types of injury, poverty was a risk for home, work and "other" injuries, protective for school injuries, while the risk of traffic injuries was not affected. The results also showed that communes in mountainous areas were at higher risk for home, work and other injuries. Overall, poverty was associated with unintentional injury morbidity. However, the relationship varied by sex, age and type of injury. Specifically, poverty increased the risk for children and elderly people being injured at home, and for adults (15-59 years) being affected by work injuries.     

The Nature of Strategic Communication: A Rejoinder to Nothhaft

In this article, we address and challenge Nothhaft’s (2016) recent attempt to revive the field of strategic communication through an application of approaches and principles from the studies of the human mind. Instead of an indiscriminate import of a natural science perspective, we argue that the shortcomings of the field are dealt with more adequately by recognizing and embracing the immense complexity at play in all dimensions of strategic communication. The challenge is to understand the multiple goals and dimensions of the field, to acknowledge the principle of recursivity in all communicative practices, and to approach the individual not as a solitary mind, but a social being whose drives and proclivities are always socially and culturally mediated.     

Three public goods and lexicographic preferences: replacement principle

Review of Economic Design - We study the problem of locating multiple public goods for a group of agents with single-peaked preferences over an interval. An alternative specifies for each public...     

Factors determining the degree of gender equality within the European Union

Quality & Quantity - This paper aims to identify the major determinants of the structural differences in gender equality for EU countries, using tools from partial order theory on a system of 6...     

Regulation of Location-Specific Externalities from Small-Scale Polluters

Environmental and Resource Economics - Emission damages caused by small-scale polluters such as farms, vehicles, homes and small businesses are often location-specific and such polluters are often...     

Entitlements to continued life and the evaluation of population health

Review of Economic Design - We analyze the implications of axioms formalizing entitlements to continued life for the evaluation of population health, when combined with basic structural axioms. A...