Documentation FiFoSiM: Integrated Tax Benefit Microsimulation and CGE Model

39 Pages Posted: 29 Mar 2007

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Andreas Peichl

ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research; University of Mannheim - School of Economics (VWL); IZA Institute of Labor Economics; University of Essex - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Thilo Schaefer

Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln

Date Written: 2006

Abstract

This documentation describes FiFoSiM, the integrated tax benefit microsimulation and CGE model of the Center of Public Economics at the University of Cologne. FiFoSiM consists of three main parts. The first part is a static tax benefit microsimulation module. The second part adds a behavioural component to the model: an econometricaly estimated labour supply model. The third module is a CGE model which allows the user of FiFoSiM to assess the global economic e¤ects of policy measures. Two specific features distinguish FiFoSiM from other tax benefit models. First, the simultaneous use of two databases for the tax benefit module and second, the linkage of the tax benefit model to a CGE model.

Keywords: FiFoSiM, microsimulation, CGE

JEL Classification: D58, H2, J22

Suggested Citation

Peichl, Andreas and Schaefer, Thilo, Documentation FiFoSiM: Integrated Tax Benefit Microsimulation and CGE Model (2006). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=960539 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.960539

Andreas Peichl (Contact Author)

ZEW – Leibniz Centre for European Economic Research ( email )

P.O. Box 10 34 43
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D-68034 Mannheim, 68034
Germany

University of Mannheim - School of Economics (VWL) ( email )

Mannheim 68131
Germany

IZA Institute of Labor Economics ( email )

P.O. Box 7240
Bonn, D-53072
Germany

University of Essex - Institute for Social and Economic Research (ISER)

Wivenhoe Park
Colchester CO4 3SQ
United Kingdom

Thilo Schaefer

Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft Köln ( email )

50668 Koeln
Germany

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