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Reformvorschlag für das Ehegattensplitting
Offener Brief an die Bundesregierung Gemeinsam mit Prof. Dr. Nicola Fuchs-Schündeln und Prof. Dr. Katharina Wrohlich habe ich einen Reformvorschlag für das Ehegattensplitting initiiert, dem sich zahlreiche Wissenschaftlerinnen angeschlossen haben. Ziel ist es, die steuerliche Anerkennung der Ehe zu erhalten, Familien mit Kindern gezielter zu stärken und bessere Erwerbsanreize für Zweitverdienende zu setzen. Der Vorschlag sieht vor, das heutige Vollsplitting in ein begrenztes Realsplitting zu überführen und die entstehenden Mehreinnahmen vollständig über Kindergeld und Kinderfreibetrag an Familien zurückzugeben. Link zum Brief: Offener Brief Link zum Konzeptpaper: Paper |
Monika Schnitzer is Professor in Economics and holds the Chair for Comparative Economics at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich.
Professor Schnitzer`s main research interests are innovation, competition policy and multinational firms.
She is chairwoman of the German Council of Economic Experts (Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung – „Wirtschaftsweise“) since 2022 and council member since 2020.
She was member and deputy chairwoman of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation from 2011 to 2019. In 2015 and 2016 she served as president of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association). Since 2001, she has also been a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry for Economics Affairs and Energy. She serves as a co-chair of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts since 2023 and is member of the Expert Commission for the Modernization of the Debt Rule since 2025.
For her scientific work, Prof. Schnitzer was rewarded with the Akademiepreis der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in 1996. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Academy of Science) and in 2022 she became member of the Germam National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2005, she received the Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Order of Merit) and in 2012, she received the Bavarian Order of Merit. From 2006 and 2009, she was the Dean of the Economic Faculty. Since 2007, she is the chairwoman of the University Research Board at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. In 2022 she received the Gustav Stolper Award of the Verein für Socialpolitik and the Europamedaille of the Free State of Bavaria. The Kiel University awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2022.
Prof. Schnitzer studied Economics at the universities of Cologne and Bonn as well as at the London School of Economics. She received her PhD at the University of Bonn in 1991. She was a visiting professor at Stanford University, Yale, the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University.
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Professor Schnitzer`s main research interests are innovation, competition policy and multinational firms.
She is chairwoman of the German Council of Economic Experts (Sachverständigenrat zur Begutachtung der gesamtwirtschaftlichen Entwicklung – „Wirtschaftsweise“) since 2022 and council member since 2020.
She was member and deputy chairwoman of the Commission of Experts for Research and Innovation from 2011 to 2019. In 2015 and 2016 she served as president of the Verein für Socialpolitik (German Economic Association). Since 2001, she has also been a member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Federal Ministry for Economics Affairs and Energy. She serves as a co-chair of the Franco-German Council of Economic Experts since 2023 and is member of the Expert Commission for the Modernization of the Debt Rule since 2025.
For her scientific work, Prof. Schnitzer was rewarded with the Akademiepreis der Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaften in 1996. Since 2008, she has been a member of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften (Bavarian Academy of Science) and in 2022 she became member of the Germam National Academy of Sciences Leopoldina. In 2005, she received the Verdienstorden der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (Order of Merit) and in 2012, she received the Bavarian Order of Merit. From 2006 and 2009, she was the Dean of the Economic Faculty. Since 2007, she is the chairwoman of the University Research Board at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University of Munich. In 2022 she received the Gustav Stolper Award of the Verein für Socialpolitik and the Europamedaille of the Free State of Bavaria. The Kiel University awarded her an honorary doctorate in 2022.
Prof. Schnitzer studied Economics at the universities of Cologne and Bonn as well as at the London School of Economics. She received her PhD at the University of Bonn in 1991. She was a visiting professor at Stanford University, Yale, the University of California at Berkeley and Harvard University.
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