country knowledge. We use a broad sample of roughly 1,000 firms in Germany to empirically test the existence of liabilities of …

on declared donations from German administrative income tax data. Our results suggest a magnitude of the money illusion …

This study analyzes results from an original survey of members of the French and German parliaments (Assemblée … Nationale, Sénat and Bundestag) on economic policies and institutions of the Eurozone. We find that French politicians are … German politicians. At the same time, there are significant differences along party lines, which are often quantitatively …

We analyze data from an author‐conducted survey of members of the French and German parliaments on European Monetary … controlling for individual characteristics. Based on our estimates, however, we predict agreement between German left‐wingers and … obstacle to a German‐French parliamentary consensus on European Monetary Union policies. …

stabilizing effects of two scenarios of fiscal integration in the Eurozone, namely the introduction of i) a joint tax and transfer …

clubs). The analysis is based on the Mannheim Innovation Panel survey which represents the German CIS (Community Innovation …, international experience and existing technological competences of the respective firm. Innovation barriers at the German home base …

German multinationals’ direct investments abroad and of foreign multinationals’ investments in Germany from 1996 till 2008. A … corresponds to that of Germany. The impact of taxation on investments is negative. A ten percentage points higher corporate tax …

of two distinct national reforms in Germany - the phase-out of nuclear power plants after the Fukushima incident and the … support schemes caused a price decrease of up to 0.17 percent for each percent of additional generation from German renewables …

analysis rests on the German data from the Europe-wide Community Innovation Survey (CIS). We use a unique data set of about 900 … explorative study has been carried out in China with interviews of German firms with innovation activities in China and with a … legal advisor for small and medium sized German enterprises. The results show that firms with international R&D activities …