The paper discusses some strategies by which the Member States of the EU are identified as Net Contributors or as Net Beneficiaries. The main strategies are the conception of the "operational" budgetary balances and the conception of the "general" budgetary balances. A comparison of these...

Free and competitive insurance markets are not able to provide a system which can be considered economically efficient to deal with the material risks of unemployment. Nor are individual unemployment insurance savings accounts – even when regulated by the state – a superior alternative. If...

Standortwettbewerb der Bundesländer ist prinzipiell eine gute Sache. Er bringt Effizienzgewinne, Kosteneinsparungen, verbesserte Leistungsangebote durch Konkurrenzdruck und präferenzgerechtere öffentliche Institutionen. Aber er kann dies nur, wenn es zu einem wirklichen Wettbewerb kommt....