This paper provides a comparison of tax morale between inhabitants of East and WestGermany in its post-reunification period, using three World Values Survey/European ValuesSurvey waves between 1990 and 1999. German reunification is particularly interesting for theanalysis of tax morale as it is...

'Macroprudential surveillance' - monitoring conjunctural and structural trends in financial markets so as to give warning of the approach of financial instability - is immensely important, given that financial crises can have huge costs. In this context, this paper presents three complementary...