Innovationen und Entrepreneurship -- Innovationen und Steuersysteme -- Rahmenbedingungen der Steuerpolitik in der EU -- Steuern, Innovationen, Entrepreneurship und Wachstum -- Empirische Analyse der Innovationsaktivität in Europa.

We address the problem of how to investigate whether economics, or politics, or both, matter in the explanation of public policy. The problem is first posed in a particular context by uncovering a political business cycle (using Canadian data for 130 years) and by taking up the challenge to make...

This paper analyzes the impact of financial openness on the size of the government in a stochastically growing small open economy when public spending is productive and volatility-reducing using a portfolio approach. The main result of the model is that economies that are more open are...