During the First World War, the film industry of the major European countries experienced a lasting crisis, which necessitated significant restructuring and prompted appeals for state intervention to counterbalance the invasion of American films. As the extent of this crisis did not affect all...

Michael Cannon and Michael Bechtel explain how despite the history of global climate negotiations being a history of policy failure, multilateral approaches to climate policy could still be an important tool for addressing climate change, war, hunger and poverty, economic meltdowns, and public...

Small trade- and investment-oriented economies like the United Kingdom (UK) should carefully consider whether to regulate online platform services based on presumptions rather than evidence that consumers are being harmed. Flimsily enforced platform regulation can have a chilling effect on...

CORTAX is a macroeconomic model that focuses on corporate taxation and is used extensively for European Commission policy assessments. As a macroeconomic model, it simulates variables such as GDP, investment and employment, while being especially notable for its focus on corporate income...

Deutschland schreitet laut internationalen Vergleichsstudien in der Öffnung von Verwaltungsdaten voran, kann aber das Potenzial noch nicht ausreichend heben. Dabei bieten offene Verwaltungsdaten einen hohen Mehrwert sowohl für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Gesellschaft als auch für die...

Internationale Vergleichsstudien zeigen, dass Deutschland Nachholbedarf bei der digitalen Transformation der Verwaltung hat. Darüber hinaus steht der öffentlichen Sektor durch Klimawandel, Mobilitäts- und Energiewende vor großen Herausforderungen. GovTech Unternehmen (kurz für Government...

In this paper, we discuss the latest generational accounting results for 12 of the 15 EU member states, which were prepared on behalf of the European Commission by an international team of experts. We proceed as follows: Section 2 summarises the characteristic features of the standardised...

We propose a model of production where technical change is both time and management induced. We define a general management index in addition to the general time index of Baltagi and Griffin (1988) and use them as arguments in the translog productionfunction. Time and management induced...

We examine an incentive scheme for a group of agents, where all agents are rewarded if the group meets its target. If the group does not meet its target, only the agents that meet their individual target are rewarded. In environmental policy, the EU burden sharing agreement and the UK Climate...