Der schweizer Finanzplan ist reich an Vermögnesverwaltern. Die Wahrnehmung allerdings, dass allein die Banken in diesem lukrativen Geschäft aktiv sind, ist falsch. Unterschätzt werden die zahlreichen unabhängigen Vermögensverwalter, die ihre Dienste vermögenden Kunden anbieten. [...]

UK government policy encourages mothers of young children in low-income families to enter or return to work, via tax credit subsidies and support for childcare. Maternal employment is seen a central plank in the campaign against child poverty, both because it raises income immediately and...

This paper analyses the long-term effects of improved small-scale lending, often provided by microfinance institutions set up with the support of development aid. The analysis shows that some common assumptions about microfinance are not true at all: First, it shows that the impact on income...

This paper analyses how tax morale and countries´ institutional quality affect the shadoweconomy, controlling in a multivariate analysis for a variety of potential factors. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of...

This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data...