The problem of the uninsured - those eschewing the purchase of health insurance policies - cannot be fully understood without considering informal alternatives to market insurance called self-insurance and self-protection, including the publicly and charitably-financed safety-net health care...

This experimental study, first, compares the individual valuations of two risk reduction mechanisms: self-insurance and self-protection. Second, it investigates these valuations when the loss amount is ambiguous, and compare these values with valuations when loss amounts are known. results...

Motivated by recent disasters, this paper analyzes the risk sharing aspect in a federation. The regions can be hit by a shock leading to losses that occur with an exogenous probability and in a stochastically independent way. The regions can spend effort on selfinsurance to reduce the size of...

This paper develops a competition theory framework that evaluates an important aspect of the OECD's Harmful Tax Practices Initiative against tax havens. We show that the sequential nature of the process is harmful and more costly than a 'big bang' multilateral agreement. The sequentiality may...

Secondary markets for long-term assets might be illiquid due to adverse selection. In a model in which moral hazard is confined to project initiation, I find that: (1) when agents expect a liquidity dry-up on such markets, they optimally choose to self-insure through the hoarding of...

The paper shows that monetary policy shocks exert a substantial effect on the size and composition of capital flows and the trade balance for the United States, with a 100 basis point easing raising net capital inflows and lowering the trade balance by 1% of GDP, and explaining about 20-25% of...

Steuerrecht ist nationales Recht. Somit kann jede einzelne Nation über steuerrechtliche Regelungen Forschung und Entwicklung fördern und gegebenenfalls Besteuerungssubstrat aus anderen Ländern absaugen. Eine dieser speziellen Regelungen ist die Patentbox Bei der vorliegenden Arbeit handelt es...

Die Kraftfahrzeugsteuer (KraftSt) ist im Jahr 1906 als sog. "Luxusaufwandsteuer" eingeführt worden. Die KraftSt belastete zunächst nur "das Halten von Personenkraftwagen" - ab 1922 wurde die Befreiung für den gewerbsmäßigen Verkehr aufgehoben. In einem weiteren Versuch der steuerrechtlichen...

This paper analyzes the tax haven investment behavior of multinational firms from a country that exempts foreign income from taxation. High foreign tax rates generally encourage firms to invest in tax havens, though significant costs of reallocating taxable income dampen these incentives. The...