Das ZEW und die Universität Mannheim haben mit ihrem Computersimulationsprogramm "European TaxAnalyzer" die Auswirkungen der Steuerreformen in Deutschland und in Frankreich für eine repräsentative mittelständische Kapitalgesellschaft des verarbeitenden Gewerbes untersucht...

Sind deutsche Chefs gut aufgestellt, um den gesellschaftlichen Wandel menschlich zu gestalten, den uns der globale Wettbewerb als Hausaufgabe aufgegeben hat? Ein weltweiter Vergleich der Managementkulturen nährt Zweifel.

Am 30. August stellte Staatssekretär Wolf-Michael Catenhusen vom Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung(BMBF) die Buchfassung des ersten Berichts zur sozioökonomischen Entwicklung in Deutschland vor.1 Die nachstehendeKurzfassung des Einleitungskapitels gibt wichtige Ergebnisse des...

In this study, we develop a technique for estimating a firm’s expected cost of equity capital derivedfrom analyst consensus forecasts and stock prices. Building on the work of Gebhardt/Lee/-Swaminathan (2001) and Easton/Taylor/Shroff/Sougiannis (2002), our approach allows dailyestimation, using...

This paper introduces a novel approach for dealing with the curse of dimensionality in thecase of large linear dynamic systems. Restrictions on the coefficients of an unrestricted VARare proposed that are binding only in a limit as the number of endogenous variables tends toinfinity...

In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmentingtechnical change the steady-state growth rate of output per worker is shown to increasein the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This conrms theassessment of Klump and de La Grandville (2000) that the...

An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions betweenendogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging.Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and howpopulation aging aects the relative scarcity of factors of production,...

Recent developments in the oil and gas industry suggest that investment behaviour is not necessarilychangeless over time. We propose a micro-econometric procedure to investigate the stability ofinvestment behaviour. Applying system GMM methods on a panel data set for 253 oil and gas...

We analyze the stability and dynamics of an overlapping generations model with imperfectlycompetitive labour markets...

This paper takes a fresh look at the analysis of labour market dynamics and argues thatcapital accumulation plays a fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. Thisrole has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission channels of thecapital stock effects, i.e. using...