Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Looking Underneath: Dichotomies and Contradictions in Public Administration -- 2 Looking Back: The Context for Public Sector Reform -- 3 Outside Looking In: The Media's First Impressions Become Lasting Impressions -- 4 Inside...

In a standard dynamic stochastic general equilibrium framework, with sticky prices, the cross sectional distribution of output and inflation across a population of firms is studied. The only form of heterogeneity is confined to the probability that the ith changes its prices in response to a...

We use a unique matched tax return-financial statement data set to examine the magnitude and sources of book-tax differences in Germany. For the first time, the data set enables us to evaluate the extent to which financial and tax accounting differ in Germany in the most accurate manner. Despite...