Im Zentrum der Arbeit steht der Versuch, anhand von einfachen Rechenbeispielen Transparenz in die Frage der steuerlichen Auswirkungen des Bankgeheimnisses auf die internationale Staatengemeinschaft zu bringen. Diese stilisierten Beispiele können leicht verfeinert werden, um die Kalküle von...

This note demonstrates that when developing countries remove barriers to migration and integrate their labour markets, children may be driven out of schools and into informal or paid employment in the comparatively rich countries. In industrialized countries, the same mechanism might force...

This paper jointly examines the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis of a long-term decline in the relative price of primary commodities and the appropriate framework in which it is tested. A general model is estimated which nests the univariate and bivariate time-series models used in the past...

This paper deals with the methodology and interpretation of international price comparisons, focusing specifically on non-traded goods and services. The key difference to traded goods lies in the underlying objective of the comparison. International differences in the prices of traded goods are...