Over the last decades, technological progress has brought about a multitude of standardization problems. For instance, compatibility standards ensure the interoperability of goods, which is of decisive importance when users face positive externalities in consumption. Consumers' expectations are...

Introduction -- A Brief Survey of the Literature -- The Closed Economy: The Solow Model -- Overlapping Generations -- Infinite Horizon -- The Small Open Economy: The Solow Model -- Overlapping Generations -- Two Countries: The Solow Model -- Synopsis -- Conclusion -- Result

The taxation of bequests has long been and still is subject to intensive discussions in many industrialized countries. Triggered by these discussions, Verena Kley analyzes the taxation of bequests from economic perspectives, focusing on wealth transfers of very rich individuals. Given empirical...

A review of the literature on environmental taxes, focusing on European experiences, and analysing how such taxes can contribute to green causes as well as reducing the tax burden from "ordinary" taxation. The authors examine the potential 'double dividend' from tax reform for helping the...

'Nicht nur für den akademischen Unterricht, sondern zugleich auch für die politische Praxis': Günter Schmölders, Professor der Wirtschaftlichen Staatswissenschaften an der Universität zu Köln, schrieb 1970 'Finanzpolitik'. Auch heute noch, mehr als drei Jahrzehnte später, ist es das...

Grundlagen der Untersuchung -- Herleitung eines Anforderungsprofils für Konzeptionen der Besteuerung des laufenden Ertrags von Netzwerken Nahestehender -- Entwicklung der Rahmenkonzeptionen der Selbständigkeit und der Einheit -- Entwicklung möglicher Reformansätze -- Zusammenfassung...

The causal relationship between growth and inequality is complex, and there have been many scholarly works to study this relationship since the seminal work of Kuznets in the 1950s. Few recent studies in this field have shown that the nature of relationship is multifaceted and non-linear. In...

Endogene Sunk Costs und die Kostenstruktur -- Endogene Sunk Costs in einem „Love of Variety“ Modell -- Endogene Sunk Costs in einem „Ideal Variety“ Modell -- Anwendungen der Modelle mit endogenen Sunk Costs -- Schlussbemerkungen.