This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...

The coronavirus affects the strongly export-oriented Swiss economy in a situation where political and economic developments are already making the cross-border exchange of goods and services difficult. For this reason, the question arises of how Switzerland can maintain or strengthen its...

Bisher waren deutsche Unternehmen bei ihrem grenzüberschreitenden Engagement in anderen Mitgliedstaaten der Europäischen Union auf die Nutzung rechtlich unselbständiger Zweigniederlassungen oder auf die Gründung von Tochtergesellschaften in der Rechtsform des jeweiligen Investitionslandes...