Sexual discrimination may persist in absence of discriminatory preferences if women find it more difficult to signal the quality of their human capital or to write self-enforcing labor market contracts. This argument is presented in the context of a model of allocation of individuals with...

Durch die fortschreitende Integration der Finanzmärkte können Entwicklungen in einem Land zum Teil verheerende Auswirkungen auf die Stabilität des Finanzsystems in einem anderen Land haben. Verlangt die Globalisierung der Finanzmärkte nach einer globalen Regulierungsarchitektur? Alexander...

Do university graduates pay back the public subsidies which they received as students through higher income taxes? Assuming a life cycle version of the ability-to-pay-principle of taxation as the normative foundation, we suggest the "foregone smoothing benefit" concept (FSB) in order to obtain a...

Whereas in philosophy David Hume was long regarded as a negative thinker to be criticized rather than read, many thinkers interested in social and economic theory from Adam Smith onwards found key concepts, distinctions and problems as developed by Hume useful and inspiring. This applies not...

On the basis of F.B.W. Hermann's Staatswirthschaftliche Untersuchungen and of major German, Austrian and Swedish contributions to public economics, two specific claims with regard to the Germanic influence in the development of public expenditure theory are put forward in this paper. It is...