The EU has ambitious goals for economic performance. The goals are to be reached in combination with social cohesion and environmentally sustainable development. The main economic policy instruments to be used by the EU member states are taxes and benefits. The economic and political framework...

The EU has ambitious goals for economic performance. The goals are to be reached in combination with social cohesion and environmentally sustainable development. The main economic policy instruments to be used by the EU member states are taxes and benefits. The economic and political framework...

Die Dissertation untersucht am Beispiel des Volkskommissariates für Außenhandel die Entstehung der frühen Sowjetbürokratie und analysiert administrative und politische Prozesse, die der Herausbildung des Stalinismus vorangingen. Gegenstand der Untersuchung sind die Probleme des staatlich...

Die vorliegende Dissertation zu makroökonomischen Themen beinhaltet einen einleitenden Literaturüberblick, drei eigenständige und voneinander unabhängige Kapitel sowie einen technischen Anhang. In Kapitel zwei wird ein Zwei-Länder Modell einer Währungsunion betrachtet, in dem die...

In ihrer nunmehr über 125-jährigen Unternehmensgeschichte besaß die Sicherung der Rohstoffversorgung einen hohen Stellenwert innerhalb der strategischen Unternehmensführung der Henkel-Gruppe. Die größten strategischen Aufwendungen zur Rohstoffsicherung unternahm die Henkel-Gruppe auf dem...

Die Dissertation versucht, durch eine Synthese aus Entwicklungs- und Systemtheorie in Kombination mit Umselt?konomie einen alternativen Ansatz f?r die Erkl?rung von wirtschaftlicher Entwicklung allgemein und den Aufstieg der japanischen Umweltindustrie im besonderen zu finden. Neben einem...

In many countries small businesses expect and generally receive special treatment, concessions or arrangements regarding taxation compared with medium and large business. Such policies are based primarily upon the role and importance of small business in economic growth and especially job...

This paper analyses in the framework of a 2-region economic geography model the impact of transfers on agglomeration of economic activity. Two main results can be derived: First, subsidies to the activity of firms are more efficient to avoid agglomeration than subsidies to consumers (social...

Under current U.S. law, taxpayers can deduct up to 100 percent of their state income taxes from their adjusted gross income when calculating their federal income taxes. As a result, Iowans currently pay approximately $251 million less to the federal government than they would otherwise pay....

This paper analyses the potentials long run effects on theBrazilian economy of two policies in the field of the indirect taxes: a)the reduction of indirect taxes on food consumption by the householdsand; b) the reduction of indirect taxes on the main inputs used in theagricultural activity. The...