Wenn ganze Finanzsystemen von radikalem Vertrauensentzug betroffen sind, so können dem nur Einrichtungen nachhaltig entgegentreten, die einen fast unbegrenzten Zugriff auf Ressourcen haben. Solche Einrichtungen können auch "Selbsthilfegruppen" sein, wie etwa ein Pool mächtiger Banken, wie das...

The paper analyzes the common assumption that the EU has little power over taxation. We find that the EU’s own taxing power is indeed narrowly circumscribed: its revenues have evolved from rather supranational beginnings in the 1950s towards an increasingly intergovernmental system. Based on a...

The increasing economic integration among OECD countries since the late 1970s has attracted much attention in tax policy research. Although several studies have tested whether capital mobility induces a race to the bottom in capital taxation, the two approaches - competition and compensation...