This dissertation analysis the consequences of interjurisdictional competition for a mobile tax base for the efficiency of the public sector and the growth potential of a jurisdiction.

The institutional governance approach sees national economies embedded in a bundle of non-market types of coordination (e.g. corporate hierarchies, networks, associations and the state). Governance oriented research explores configurations of governance types in sectoral, regional and national...

Already before the EU Directive 96/92/EG was passed in 1996, some countries in the EU had started their liberalisation process for energy markets. So, in 1991, Norway established a national power market that in 1996 turned into the multinational power exchange Nord Pool, including all Nordic...

Diese Diplomarbeit beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob die private Bereitstellung öffentlicher Güter subventioniert werden sollte. Insbesondere wird hier auf Spenden an Organisationen eingegangen, die einen wohltätigen Zweck verfolgen. Diese stellen eine Ergänzung zum öffentlichen...

Die vorgelegte Diplomarbeit setzt sich mit verschiedenen theoretischen Modellen der Steuerhinterziehung auseinander. Am Beginn der Arbeit wird das Hauptaugenmerk auf die Einkommensteuerhinterziehung eines Individuums, z.B. eines Finanzleiters gelegt, wobei dies als Entscheidung unter...

The design of both tuition fees and their accompanying loan systems determines their effect on the goals of investment in higher education, equal access to higher education, free choice between universities as well as cost-effective provision of the loans. Under a law-and-economics approach,...

We propose the relaxation algorithm as a simple and powerful method for simulating the transition process in growth models. This method has a number of important advantages: First, it can easily deal with a wide range of dynamic systems including stiff differential equations and systems giving...