Rudolf Oster gibt eine umfassende Übersicht über die Auswirkungen von Umlagen im Finanzausgleich zwischen den Kommunen. Die weiteren Beiträge behandeln Auswirkungen der Gewinnbesteuerung. Christian Keuschnigg zeigt, daß Investitionen im Inland gehemmt werden können und Kapital ins Ausland...

Das Lehrbuch vermittelt elementare und praxisrelevante Grundkenntnisse zu den wichtigsten Kennzahlen der dynamischen Investitionsrechnung (Endwertdifferenz, Kapitalwert, Annuität, Amortisationszeitpunkt sowie interner Zinssatz), den Formen der Unternehmensfinanzierung (langfristige Eigen- und...

It is argued that the observed return rates on capital at firm-level have an upward bias if firms are producing with unobserved intangible capital. Using EUKLEED, a comprehensive firm level data base for Germany, this theoretical preposition is proved empirically. Furthermore, making unobserved...

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and establishments are fit in four sub-intervals spanning the period from 1985 to 2009. We show that these models provide a good...

This study uses detailed, reliable and up-to-date linked employer-employee data that take account of both the demand and the supply side of the labor market to challenge the conventional wisdom of a universal exporter wage premium. It investigates whether for German establishments an exporter...

This paper investigates the relative impact of microeconomic agglomeration mechanisms on plant's total factor productivity (TFP) using German establishment and employment level data. Contrasting different strategies to estimate TFP from plant level production functions reveals that not...