Instrumental variables (IV) are a common means to identify treatment effects. But standard IV methods do not allow us to unpack the complex treatment effects that arise when a treatment and its outcome together cause a second outcome of interest. For example, IV methods have been used to show...

This paper uses bilateral automobile export unit values from the United States, Germany and Japan to measure the importance of markup adjustment that is associated with exchange rate changes across export destination markets. Japanese auto export prices exhibit a high degree of markup adjustment...

1 Introduction and Outline -- Part I: Internal Migration and the Labor Market -- 2 Panel VAR for Internal Migration Modelling -- 3 Testing the Neoclassical Migration Model -- 4 Space-Time Dependence in Migration Flows -- Part II: Trade and FDI Activity -- 5 Trade-FDI Linkages -- 6 Estimating...

Based on representative survey data, the present study examines potentials for the sustainable development of a transnational civil society in French-German, Polish-German, and Czech-German border regions. The theoretical framework is a social capital approach in the tradition of Putnam....

Land-development offset policies consist of measures that require compensation to be made for the negative impact of land development on agricultural production, ecological and environmental conservation, and the sustainability of economic and social development. However, when such policies are...

To foster sustainable regional development, many regions rely on innovations. To safeguard the generation of innovations and their market introduction, companies have increasingly used technology roadmapping and open innovation. The project INNOrural (Innovations for sustainable rural...

In the name of sustainable development, skilled persons including scholars, researchers and students have become incorporated in the “sustainable development” visions and strategies of institutions, city centers and nation-states near and far from where these potentially mobile brains are....

A large body of literature claims that corporate sustainable development is a cross-functional challenge, which requires all functional units to be involved. However, it remains uncertain to what extent and in which way different corporate functions are actually involved in corporate...

Problemstellung -- Problemstellung -- Theoretische Grundlagen -- Steuerwirkung -- Steuerwettbewerb -- Investitionsneutrale Besteuerung -- Effektivsteuersätze -- Bekannte Definitionen -- Die Zusammenführung der Definitionen -- Vergleich der Definitionen -- Steuerbelastungsvergleich -- Empirie...