This textbook examines corruption through a macroeconomic lens, exploring the relationship between corruption, fiscal policy, and political economy. The book merges macroeconomic growth models with elements of political economic theory to address important applied topics such as income...

Auf Finanzmärkten werden Entscheidungen häufig unter Unsicherheit getroffen. Die Vertragstheorie ist deshalb ein geeignetes Instrument, Interaktionen zwischen Wirtschaftspartnern zu untersuchen und Vertragsinhalte als Ergebnis rationaler Entscheidungen zu erklären. Dieses Lehrbuch beschreibt...

This book investigates the reasons for persistent public deficits and delayed fiscal reform in Japan, placing a special emphasis on political economy aspects. Japan is confronted with the need to pursue fiscal discipline for fiscal consolidation and implement structural reforms for reorganizing...

How and Where Government Spends Money: Public Budgeting Reform and Citizen Participation -- Institutional Reform and Innovation in the Public Financing System -- ays to Promote Public Budgeting Reform -- A Constitutional Perspective on the Financial Transfer Payment System in China -- A...

Dieses Buch gibt Antworten auf die Frage, welche personellen und organisatorischen Faktoren die erfolgreiche Realisierung einer Innovation begründen. Der Autor wirft hierfür einen Blick auf die Motive der Mitarbeiterinnen und Mitarbeiter, welche Änderungen umsetzen müssen. Am Beispiel der...

1. Introduction -- 2. Non-routine problems and flexibility -- 3. Flexibility, inflexibility and budgeting -- 4. Budget rules and budget flexibility -- 5. Budget reform and rule modification -- 6. Calibrating budget flexibility and control: A new role for rule variability -- 7. Conclusion. .

This study develops a reform proposal for the future revenue system of the EU budget. The findings strongly reject the idea that a reform based on an EU tax-based own resource would remedy current problems. Against the background of the status quo analysis the authors present a reform model...

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...