Some previous analyses have suggested that the smoothing of tax rates over time would be a desirable guide for public debt management. One implication of this viewpoint is that future changes in tax rates would be unpredictable based on current information. This proposition is tested by...

This paper exploits a unique offshoring survey to show that firms continue domestic production of the same goods they offshore to low-wage countries. This shift towards "produced-good imports" coincides with a reallocation of labor from physical production to innovation and technology...

This paper examines the causes of manufacturing plant deaths within and across industries in the U.S. from 1977-1997. The effects of international competition from low wage countries, exporting, ownership structure, product diversity, productivity, geography, and plant characteristics are...

Die Herausforderung der Digitalisierung durch Projektifizierung Die Digitalisierung hat mittlerweile nahezu alle Bereiche des Privatlebens und des Arbeitslebens erfasst. Dieses Buch befasst sich mit der Digitalisierung als Transformationsprozess der Gesellschaft. Dabei liegt der Fokus auf...