The study aims at estimating the effects of support for research and development and innovation from the European Union (EU) budget for boosting innovation in European enterprises, using input, output, and behavioral additionality approach. The study is based on microdata of the Community...

This paper aims to examine the links between university-industry collaboration (UIC) predictors (inputs) and the results of UIC cooperation (outputs). The focus of the research is UIC within the European Union member states and the Western Balkan countries. The analysis was conducted using the...

Die vergangenen Jahrzehnte waren weltweit durch eine Zunahme der außenwirtschaftlichen Ungleichgewichte gekennzeichnet. Den Leistungsbilanzüberschussländern, insbesondere Deutschland, wird in diesem Zusammenhang zunehmend vorgeworfen, durch zu moderate Lohnsteigerungen wesentlich zum Aufbau...

Decisions to donate time or money for charitable purposes are typically seen as make-or-buy decisions, implying that there should be a clear distinction between individuals engaging in one of these two forms of giving and that this distinction should be somehow linked to opportunity costs. But...

The Chinese version of this paper can be found at "http://ssrn.com/abstract=2008149" http://ssrn.com/abstract=2008149.As could be expected, the global financial crisis is on everybody's mind and causing a lot of worries. The current crisis has reached the consumers globally and intensified...

This paper which was written for the 2012 EATLP conference ‘Taxation of Charities' (1 June 2012, Rotterdam) analyses whether the Proposal for a Council Regulation on the Statute for a European Foundation (Fundatio Europaea, in short FE) provides for an effective, efficient and feasible...

NPOs are important legal vehicles through which needed financial and material resources are dedicated to achieving goals related to activities in the common good and in the public interest. As such, the State is interested to support the activities of NPOs because it is in principle equally...

This paper provides an overview of global solid waste generation, its environmental costs, and fiscal instruments that can be used to encourage waste reduction and finance proper disposal. Countries—especially island nations—struggle to manage an ever-increasing volume of solid waste,...