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Voter Involvement, Fiscal Autonomy and Public Sector Efficiency: Evidence from German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2008

political sphere is related to government performance – in terms of its efficiency – using a broad panel of German … municipalities. Our results suggest that voter involvement indeed has a positive impact on (technical) efficiency. Crucially, however …, this efficiency-enhancing effect of voter involvement is significantly (positively) affected by local governments? fiscal …

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Economic Effects of VAT Reform in Germany

Boeters, Stefan; Böhringer, Christoph; Büttner, Thiess; … - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2006

In the tax policy debate, differentiation of value-added taxes is often justified by distributional concerns. Our quantitative analysis for Germany indicates that such concerns are misplaced. We find that the abolition of VAT differentiation has only negligible redistributive effects. Instead,...

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Local Governments in the Wake of Demographic Change: Efficiency and Economies of Scale in German Municipalities

Geys, Benny; Heinemann, Friedrich; Kalb, Alexander - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2007

a sample of 1021 municipalities in the state of Baden-Württemberg). First, we consider local government cost efficiency …. This indicates that there is a substantial divergence in efficiency despite a homogeneous institutional setting, leaving at …

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On the Design of Optimal Grandfathering Schemes for Emission Allowances

Böhringer, Christoph; Lange, Andreas - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

grandfathering of allowances. Besides having distributional impacts, the choice of the grandfathering scheme may affect efficiency if …

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Different Prices for Identical Products? Market Efficiency and the Virtual Location in B2C E-Commerce

Häring, Julia - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003

This paper analyses market efficiency and the role of the virtual location in digital markets using a data set …, which supports the hypothesis of enhanced market efficiency in electronic markets. Furthermore, the results show that an …

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ICT and international corporate taxation: tax attributes and scope of taxation

Schäfer, Anne; Spengel, Christoph - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2002

In this paper, an outline of the consequences of the increased use of ICT on international corporate taxation, namely on the tax attributes and the scope of taxation, is given. It is argued that the concept of capital export neutrality shall prevail, as it is deemed to be the most appropriate to...

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Does Work Time Flexibility Work? An Empirical Assessment of the Efficiency Effects for German Firms

Wolf, Elke; Beblo, Miriam - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004

In this paper we assess the impact of flexible work time schedules on firm efficiency using representative … and the determinants of technical efficiency simultaneously. The innovation of our study is that we draw on technical … efficiency instead of productivity to appraise the success of flexible working hours. The results indicate that while the use of …

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Productivity effects of business process outsourcing: a firm-level investigation based on panel data

Ohnemus, Jörg - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2009

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive German firm-level panel data set covering manufacturing and service industries. The growing importance of service inputs into the production process is undisputed. Firms...

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Words speak louder than actions: The impact of politics on economic performance

Osterloh, Steffen - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2010

In this paper, a new approach to disclose the impact of politics on economic growth is presented: we use data derived from content analysis of party manifestos as measures of party preferences. In a panel of 23 OECD countries, we detect a positive impact of party support for various...

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A note on how to realize the full potential of the EU-SILC data

Berger, Melissa; Schaffner, Sandra - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2015

The European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions (EU-SILC) is a rotational panel provided by Eurostat that covers variables with a high potential for comparative European labour market and social research. Unfortunately, its current availability limits its potential research...

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