The paper asks how the modal shift from road to rail in the freight sector is sup-ported by institutional change. Following North (1990), institutions are understood as the "rules of the game" in the rail freight sector. Based on the literature on institutional change, four different...

Ahead of German federal elections in September 1998 it became obvious that tax reform would remain on the political agenda. In this context broadening of the tax base plays a crucial role. In any case, the reduction of subsidies is an economic policy topic of persistent concern. The Federal...

Der Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Stiftung Familienunternehmen warnt davor, die Konjunktur-, Finanzmarkt- und Wettbewerbspolitik mit umweltpolitischen Zielen zu überfrachten. "Der Schutz des Klimas ist die größte Aufgabe unserer Generation. Es ist aber nicht sinnvoll, alle Bereiche der...

Empirical analyses of economic inequality, poverty, and mobility in Germany are, to an increas-ing extent, using microdata from the German Federal Statistical Office's contribution to the European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) as well as data from the German...