Introduction / Marie Cremona -- Services for general economic interest : European law's impact on the role of markets and of member states / Heike Schweitzer -- Universal services : nucleus for a social European private law / Hans-W Micklitz -- The concept of state aid in liberalized sectors /...

Higher corporate taxes are often argued to depress wages (a tax incidence effect), while higher wages may require compensation via lower corporate tax rates (a fiscal compensation effect). Yet, existing empirical evidence ignores that i) both effects are likely to occur simultaneously...