This paper analyses how governance or institutional quality and tax morale affect the shadoweconomy, using an international country panel and also within country data. The literaturestrongly emphasizes the quantitative importance of these factors to understand the level andchanges of shadow...

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...

This paper analyzes the determinants of alternative automobile fuel regulation and developmentsupport with a particular focus on methanol fuel. We find that embedded interests, bureaucraticreforms, and political circumstances in the Chinese national, provincial, and municipalgovernments have all...

Generally, Democrats do not increase military spending, and Republicans do not raise welfare payments. Mostly, ruling politicians stick to the manifesto of their party. The current paper provides a theoretical explanation for this phenomenonthat does not assume politicians or voters to be...

In response to PISA, all German federal states but one have adopted central exitexaminations (CEEs) at the end of all secondary school tracks. Theoretically, the advantagesof CEEs are fairly undisputed. CEEs make teaching and learning output observable andcomparable across schools, and provide...

mode of production exist that is based on the contributions of many software programmerswithout providing any direct monetary incentives for them? And how can these programmerscoordinate their actions without relying on either the guidance of the price mechanism or thedirection through a...

Dieser Beitrag rekonstruiert, wie im deutschen Sprachraum während der letzten 20 Jahreein ganz bestimmter Ansatz zur Unternehmensethik entwickelt wurde. Rückblickendwird nachgezeichnet, (1) wie diese Unternehmensethik aus einer Wirtschaftsethik herausentstanden ist, die als ökonomische...

Dieser Beitrag stellt unter der Bezeichnung „Ordonomik“ ein Forschungsprogramm vor,das ursprünglich im Bereich der Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik entstanden ist undnunmehr allgemein gesellschaftstheoretisch als institutionalistisch ausgerichteter Rational-Choice-Ansatz zur Analyse von...

Gesellschaftstheoretiker wie der Soziologe Niklas Luhmann machen darauf aufmerksam,dass es in der modernen Gesellschaft zu systematischen Diskrepanzen zwischenSemantik und Sozialstruktur kommt. Solche Diskrepanzen – also Fälle, in denen Sozialstrukturund Semantik nicht zueinander passen –...