On 3 June 2020, the German government announced a temporary value added tax (VAT) rate reduction. VAT rates were reduced on 1 July 2020 and went back to their previous level on 1 January 2021. We study the price effects of the temporary VAT rate reduction using a web-scraped data set covering...

This paper forms part of an OECD project which addressed the issue of the structure and change in the distribution systems of seven OECD countries. First, the paper discusses the role of distribution systems in the overall economic performance. Next, it gives an overview of the structure and...

In den 90er Jahren kam es zu einem weltweiten Boom bei den Direktinvestitionen. Im Gegensatz zu vergleichbaren Entwicklungen in den 80er Jahren haben auch eine Reihe von Entwicklungsländern in erheblichem Umfang Direktinvestitionskapital empfangen. Diese breitere Streuung hat auch...