11th Norwegian-German Seminar on Public Economics
This conference will be jointly organized by CESifo, the Norwegian Center for Taxation at NHH, and Oslo Fiscal Studies at UiO. Financial support from the Research Council of Norway is gratefully acknowledged.
The conference invites the submission of papers from all fields of public finance. Both theoretical and empirical papers are welcome. Preference will be given to papers from Norway and Germany.
Papers:
Tax Land or Housing? Distributional Effects of Property Taxation in Germany
RAFAEL BARBOSA (European University Institute Florence), and Simon Skipka
Efficient Taxation of Fuel and Road Use
GEIR BJERTNÆS (Statistics Norway)
Wage Subsidies and Fair Wages
TOMER BLUMKIN (Ben Gurion University), Haim Pinhas, and Ro’i Zultan
Party Effects on Residential Property Tax: Progressivity and Level of Taxation
LARS-ERIK BORGE (Norwegian University of Science and Technology), and Luka Marcinko
Behavioral Responses to Tax Audits: Between Deterrence and Approval
Shafik Hebous, ZHIYANG JIA (Statistics Norway and OFS), Knut Løyland, Thor O. Thoresen, and Arnstein Øvrum
So, What Have We Learned about the Labor Market?
EVELINA GAVRILOVA-ZOUTMAN (NHH Norwegian School of Economics and NoCeT), Floris Zoutman, Arnt-Ove Hopland, and Jarle Møen
Tax Debt Collection Enforcement: When Does Suspension of a Driver's License Help?
YULIA KUCHUMOVA (Higher School of Economics St. Petersburg)
Who Bears the Burden of Real Estate Transfer Taxes? Evidence from the German Housing Market
Mathias Dolls, Clemens Fuest, Carla Krolage, and FLORIAN NEUMEIER (ifo Institute Munich)
The Effect of a Tax Exemption of Retained Profits on Firm’s Equity - Evidence from Croatia
RAINER NIEMANN (University of Graz), Silke Rünger, and Peter Schmidt
Use it or Lose it: Efficiency Gains from Wealth Taxation
Fatih Guvenen, Gueorgui Kambourov, Burhanettin Kuruscu, SERGIO OCAMPO-DIAZ (University of Oslo and University of Minnesota), and Daphne Chen
Optimal Taxation and the Equal-Sacrifice Social Welfare Function
Kristoffer Berg, and PAOLO PIACQUADIO (University of Oslo and OFS)
The Customer is King: Evidence on VAT Compliance in Tanzania
Odd-Helge Fjeldstad,Cecilia Kagoma, Ephraim Mdee, INGRID HOEM SJURSEN (SNF Centre for Applied Research and NoCeT), and Vincent Somvillek
The Impact of Economic (Dis)integration on Tax and Trade Policies
Eckhard Janeba and KARL SCHULZ (University of Mannheim)
Public Good Overprovision by a Manipulative Provider
Gorkem Celik, Dongsoo Shin, and ROLAND STRAUSZ (Humboldt University Berlin)
School Spending and Extension of the Youth Voting Franchise: Evidence from an Experiment in Norway
Ole Henning Nyhus, and BJARNE STRØM (Norwegian University of Science and Technology)
The Theoretical Case for Direct Democracy
Rune Midjord, Tomás Rodríguez Barraquer, and JUSTIN VALASEK (WZB Berlin and NHH Norwegian School of Economics)
Alternatives to Paying Child Benefit to the Rich: Means Testing or Higher Tax?
Patricia Apps, Ray Rees, Thor O.Thoresen, and TRINE ENGH VATTØ (Statistics Norway and OFS)