This paper explores the optimal design of subsidies for hiring unemployed workers (?employment vouchers? for short) in the context of a dynamic model of the labor market. Focusing on the short-term and long-term effects of the vouchers on employment and unemployment, the analysis shows how the...

The paper discusses various possible approaches to turnover taxation in cyberspace. It shows that the main challenge of the new economy is to effectively cope with B2C international trade in digital online goods and services. However, most approaches to turnover taxation discussed in the...

Die konjunkturelle Expansion in den Industrieländern setzte sich im ersten Halbjahr 1989 zügig fort; die Zuwachsrate des Bruttosozialprodukts betrug etwa 3,5 vH. Allerdings gab es deutliche regionale Unterschiede. Während es in den Vereinigten Staaten, Kanada und dem Vereinigten Königreich...