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The tax and the mighty: Tax payer concentration lowers local business taxation in German Municipalities
Bischoff, Ivo; Krabel, Stefan - Volkswirtschaft Abteilung, Fachbereich … - 2012
We analyze the impact of large firms on business tax rates using data from German mu-nicipalities in Hesse in 1998-2005. Results suggest that business tax rates decrease with tax-payers’ concentration, indicating strong local lobbying power of large firms.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010586199
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Completing the Monetary Union of Europe as Mid-term Solution of the Euro Crisis
Fischer, Justina A.V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307457
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Completing the monetary union of Europe as mid-term solution of the Euro crisis
Fischer, Justina A. V.; Pastore, Francesco - 2015
This research note discusses the Euro crisis in Greece in light of the referendum of July the 5th. It lays out the social and political costs of a GREXIT, but also of a continuing austerity policy. It proposes a reform policy fostering growth in Greece and discusses the role of conditionality....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011308548
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Transatlantic trade and investment partnership : sectoral and macroeconomic perspectives for Germany ; the EU and the US
Irawan, Tony; Welfens, Paul J. J. - 2014
equipment sector in both Germany and the US; in Germany also in ICT production. However, most of the observed sectors have weak … effect of a 20% export expansion in Germany amounts to about 800 000 new jobs. Looking only at the US and German perspective …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010354546
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The wage effects of offshoring to the East and West: evidence from Germany
Koerner, Konstantin - 2021
This paper analyzes the labor market effects of offshoring in a high-wage home country and how these effects crucially depend on (1) job complexity and (2) the characteristics of the destination country. It thereby links several sources: rich administrative data on individuals and plants in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012655198
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Cross-border policy networks in the trinational region of Basel
Olivier, WALTHER; Bernard, REITEL - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2012
analysis of the Basel metropolitan region located across Switzerland, France and Germany considers the case of cross …, with Swiss actors acting as coordinator and representative brokers vis-à-vis players located in France and Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010552053
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Cross-border policy networks in the trinational region of Basel
Olivier, WALTHER; Bernard, REITEL - Luxembourg Institute of Socio-Economic Research … - 2012
analysis of the Basel metropolitan region located across Switzerland, France and Germany considers the case of cross …, with Swiss actors acting as coordinator and representative brokers vis-à-vis players located in France and Germany. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011098248
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010395778
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Essays on offshoring, wage inequality and innovation
Benz, Sebastian - 2014
This volume was prepared by Sebastian Benz while he was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2013 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It includes five self-contained chapters. All chapters discuss different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011742945
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Integration, decentralization, taxation, and revenue sharing : good governance, sustainable fiscal policy and poverty reduction as peace-keeping strategies ; Paper prepared for the...
Petersen, Hans-Georg - 2008
the federal member states. Integration and decentralization are not opposite policy strategies but both meaningful if the … approaches in inter- or supra-national integration, fiscal federalism and taxation do exist and have to be successfully … ; integration ; nation building ; revenue sharing ; sustainable fiscal policy ; tax reform …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003789480