Auf der Grundlage langjähriger Evaluierungserfahrung werden die von der Europäischen Kommission (EU-KOM) im Juni 2018 vorgelegten Verordnungsentwürfe zur Gemeinsamen Agrarpolitik (GAP) nach 2020 in Bezug auf den Europäischen Landwirtschaftsfonds für die Entwicklung des ländlichen Raums...

In der vorliegenden Stellungnahme untersuchen die Autor*innen im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, ob und wie inwieweit das Modell der Gemeinwohlprämie des Deutschen Verbands für Landschaftspflege für eine Umsetzung im Rahmen der Öko-Regelungen der GAP nach...

Paternalism, merit goods and specific egalitarianism are concepts we sometimes meet in the literature. The thing in common is that the policy maker does not fully respect the consumer sovereignty principle and design policies according to some other criterion than individuals' preferences. Using...

The paper aims at a conceptual contribution to the normative economic analysis of rural de-velopment (RD) policies. RD is regarded as a problem of interaction between individuals; (lacking) structural change or the (missing) integration of externalities are therefore recon-structed as...

Dieses Diskussionspapier beleuchtet die PRME-Verpflichtung der Hochschule Pforzheim und die daraus resultierenden Probleme (Abschnitt 2) aus vier Perspektiven: der erkenntnistheoretischen (Abschnitt 3), der erfahrungswissenschaftlichen (Abschnitt 4), der juristischen (Abschnitt 5) und einer...

We analyze the impact of tax morality on progressive income (wage) taxation. We assume that transfers (cash-back) and public expenditures are financed from linear wage taxes. We derive the reported wages from individual utility maximization, when individuals obtain partial satisfaction from...

For quite a long time, network industries used to be regarded as (natural) monopolies. This was due to these industries having some special characteristics. Network externalities and economies of scale in particular justified the (natural) monopoly thesis. Recently, however, a trend towards...

As a consequence of the negotiations for a new agricultural policy of the EU the multifunctionality of agricultural production has come into new prominence in the public. The philosophy that subsidies for the agricultural sector should be calculated not only by ag-ricultural market production...

In a paper delivered at the December 1955 meeting of the Econometric Society, Paul Samuelson noted that though economists had done "work of high quality and great quantity in the field of taxation," the theory of public expenditure had been "relatively neglected" (1958, 332). Anglo-American...