The current fiscal imbalances and fragilities in the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean countries (SEMC) are the result of decades of instability, but have become more visible since 2008, when a combination of adverse economic and political shocks (the global and European financial crises, Arab...

VAT reform constituted the most important tax policy action China took during the global financial crisis in 2008-9. If China had had a more typical tax structure, this specific policy instrument (as well as certain others) would not have been available. Conversely, because of the idiosyncrasies...

Der westdeutsche Wiederaufbau nach 1945 erforderte umfangreiche gesamtwirtschaftliche Investitionen. Anfang der Fünfzigerjahre war die große Diskrepanz zwischen Kapitalnachfrage und -angebot das wirtschaftliche Kernproblem der jungen Bundesrepublik, bei dem sich der "funktionsunfähige"...