Public-private partnerships (PPPs) can appeal to governments because they offer a new way of providing public services that is possibly more efficient than traditional public finance. But they can also appeal to governments because they allow new investments to be undertaken without any...

This paper analyses the empirical relationship between fiscal policy and the trade account. Research prior to this paper did not consider that the components of private and public demand in the import demand equation exhibit different elasticities. Using pooled mean group estimation for annual...

Stickstoffeinträge in Oberflächengewässer stellen ein schwerwiegendes Externalitätenproblem der landwirtschaftlichen Produktion dar. Umwelt- und Verbraucherschützer fordern, diese Externalitäten durch staatliche Eingriffe zu reduzieren. Vor diesem Hintergrund betrachtet die vorliegende...