Überall auf der Welt haben Regierungen Pläne für ultra-schnelle nationale Breitbandnetzeangekündigt. Netzbetreiber, insbesondere Incumbents, scheinen dagegen wenigerbegeistert über groß angelegte Investitionsprogramme in Glasfasernetze zu sein.Wenn sie investieren, scheinen sie mehr auf...

An alternative minimum tax (AMT) is often regarded as desirable. We analyze a wealthtax at corporate and personal level that is designed as an AMT as proposed by the GermanGreen Party. This wealth tax is imputable to profit taxes and is hence intended to preventmultiple (multistage) taxation....

China’s banking market is one of the most attractive investment targets for financial institutionsworldwide especially since the opening up of the market in December 2006. Based oninterviews with experts this paper analyses the question of benefits and risks of foreign directinvestments into...

In this article we analyze firms investment incentives in liberalized electricity markets. Sinceelectricity is economically non storable, it is optimal for firms to invest in a differentiatedportfolio of technologies in order to serve strongly fluctuating demand. Prior to theLiberalization of...

Insurance Industry will create a more efficient, customer centric, collaborative and innovative marketplace. Embrace extended/networked business models that include innovation across value chain through capabilities of strategic partners, best practices, expertise, and capital...

This paper intends to provide an evaluation of where the economic research onhappiness stands and in which interesting directions it might develop...

For two independent principles of intergenerational equity, the implied discount rate equals the growthrate of real per-capita income, say 2%, thus falling right into the range suggested by the U.S. Office ofManagement and Budget. To prove this, we develop a simple tool to evaluate small policy...

Three step process: Each valuation process can - independent of its economic or ecological focus - be subdivided into three stages: The selection of the target object, the determination of the effects to be analyzed and, last but not least, the monetary or non-monetary valuation of these...

At present Germany experiences a shake-up of the hospital industry, following the introduction of a DRG-based hospital budgeting system. Hospital owners re-evaluate their assets and adapt their strategies to the new regulatory environment. Benchmarking studies play a vital role in assessing own...