Motivation of virtually all regional economic integration (REI) initiatives has been prospect of enhanced economic growth. Although REI's role in contributing to growth and development was recognised and acknowledged, its importance in Africa has never been properly outlined. Theoretical...

Canadian exports of wheat and barley to the United States have increased significantly since the late 1980s. The objectives of this study are to determine the factors that affect trade flows of hard red spring wheat, durum wheat, malting barley, and feed barley from Canada to the United States...

Substantial changes have taken place recently in the regulation of agricultural trade in North America. The effect of these changes on trade in agricultural commodities is of particular interest to producers and policymakers in the Northern Plains and Rockies region. In this paper, we discuss...

The recently signed Korea-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (KORUS FTA) grants the U.S. livestock industry with preferential access to South Korea's import market. This study evaluates the likely impacts of the KORUS FTA on the U.S. livestock sector.Using the Food and Agricultural Policy Research...

In U.S. federal income tax, the standard deduction, along with the personal exemptions, provides taxpayers with a minimum amount of untaxed income, effectively creating a "zero bracket amount." For historical and political reasons, however, the standard deduction also operates as a simplified...

The proposal is offered as a part of the Shelf Project, a collaboration by tax professionals to develop and perfect proposals to help Congress when it needs to raise revenue. Shelf Project proposals are intended to raise revenue without raising tax rates because the best systems have taxes that...

The introduction of the Income Tax Assessment Act 1997 (Australia) was an attempt to decrease the complexity of the tax system, but the issue of complexity is still evident. Accounting practitioners are becoming overwhelmed with the amount of tax legislation and researchers have suggested that...

Für den Regelungszweck der Erbteilung sieht das Erbrecht alternativ das Eintreten der gesetzlichen Erbfolge oder die gewillkürte Erbfolge (z.B. in Form eines Testaments) durch den Erblasser vor. In allen Anwendungsfällen, in denen der Erblasser hinsichtlich der erbfallbedingten Zuteilung...

Ziel der Arbeit ist es, die durch die Unternehmenssteuerreform 2001 veränderte Rechtslage im Hinblick auf das vom Gesetzgeber angestrebte Ziel der Rechtsformneutralität zu untersuchen. Ausgehend von einer Betrachtung des Gebots einer rechtsformneutralen Unternehmensbesteuerung in ökonomischer...

Die für die Insolvenzdelikte des § 283 StGB maßgebenden abstrakten Tatbestandsmerkmale sollen hier mit den betriebswirtschaftlichen Instrumenten der Rechnungslegung und Bilanzierung präzisiert werden. Dabei spielen die substantiierte wertmäßige Ermittlung der Zahlungsunfähigkeit, der...