The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...

Bekanntlich sind auf der Welt nur zwei Dinge sicher: der Tod und die Steuern. Allerdings scheint Benjamin Franklins Bonmot nicht für alle zu gelten. Multinationale Grosskonzerne entwickeln immer ausgeklügeltere Methoden, um ihre Gewinne am Fiskus vorbeizuschleusen, Steuerparadiese unterbieten...

This paper performs a meta-analysis of empirical estimates of uncompensated labour supply elasticities. We find that much of the variation in elasticities can be explained by the variation in gender, participation rates, and country fixed effects. Country differences appear to be small though....

This paper is the first to provide evidence of efficient taxation of groups with heterogeneous levels of 'tax morale'. We set up an optimal income tax model where high tax morale implies a high subjective cost of evading taxes. The model predicts that 'nice guys finish last': groups with higher...