-insurance demand. An unanticipated tax reform in 2000 halved the tax exemption limit for capital income in Germany. We document that …

Eine erste systematische, modellgestützte Untersuchung der ökologischen Steuerreform in Deutschland kommt zu moderaten …A first systematic, model-based analysis of the environmental fiscal reform in Germany indicates moderate but slightly …

We explore the role of social capital in the spread of the recent Covid-19 pandemic in independent analyses for Austria …, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK. Exploiting within-country variation, we show that a one …

The authors compare a firm's costs and benefits of providing apprenticeship training in Austria and Switzerland, using … pay in Austria, which in turn is associated with collective bargaining agreements and competition with alternative school …

Austria and Germany assessing the impact of road charging (RC). The pricing policy measure is introduced for the private …The authors apply a computable general equilibrium (CGE) modeling framework to carry out a two-country comparison for …

Mexico leads to an increase in the skill premium in both the US and Mexico. In this paper we show on the example of Austria … and Poland that with the new international division of labour emerging in Europe Austria, the high income country, is … skill part. As a result, skilled workers in Austria are losing from outsourcing, while gaining in Poland. In Austria …

Introduction Germany currently finds itself in a difficult economic situation, one characterised not only by a long …, pose a threat to Germany's medium-term growth prospects. In the international context the central challenges result from …