The globalization has increased the importance of research and development (R&D) activity and of technological advancements, especially in information and communication technologies. This case is valid for small and medium- sized enterprises (SMEs) which have taken a crucial place in all...

This paper provides a normative justification for the use of a minimum wage as a redistributive tool in a competitive labor market. We show that a government interested in improving the wellbeing of the deserving poor, while being less concerned with their undeserving counterparts, can use a...

Donald Trump hat eine historische Steuerreform versprochen. Kern wird vermutlich eine 'Destination-Based Cash Flow Tax' sein. Dieser Steuer werden stark protektionistische Effekte unterstellt. Der Autor relativiert entsprechende Erwartungen. Außerdem erinnert er daran, dass Deutschland 2007...

Städte und Regionen entwickeln sich zurzeit ungleich und erzeugen gesellschaftlich und politisch Aufmerksamkeit. Die Sorge vor einem weiteren Aufreißen der Lücken zwischen Stadt und Land und zwischen Gewinner- und Verliererregionen des Strukturwandels sitzt tief und damit auch die Sorge vor...

This work examines in depth the hypotheses explaining the tax capacity of regional governments, also determining their tax effort and explanatory factors. The study is done for the Spanish regions, using different techniques which have rarely been applied in this area. The results show that...

This paper investigates the impact of multilateral trade liberalization on resource revenue, using an unbalanced panel dataset comprising 57 countries, including both developed and developing countries, over the period 1995-2015. By means of the two-step system Generalized Methods of Moments...

This paper examines the set of Pareto efficient allocations in a finite period Mirrlees (1971, 1976) economy; each period represents a lifetime for an agent who cares about the utility of his descendants. In making Pareto comparisons, we use an interim concept of efficiency, and consider an...

Im Grundgesetz erhielten die Bundesländer Ausgabenautonomie ohne Finanzautonomie. Daher haben sie bis heute keinen Anreiz, Ausgaben gegen Einnahmen abzuwägen, sondern schöpfen den Ausgabenplafond stets vollständig aus. Ein Wettbewerb um Steuerrückerstattungen könnte Anreize setzen,...

This paper investigates whether government support can act to increase exporting activity. We use a uniquely rich data set on Irish manufacturing plants and employ an empirical strategy that combines a non-parametric matching procedure with a difference-in-differences estimator in order to deal...

A method for dealing with monotonicity constraints in optimal control problems is used to generalize some results in the context of monopoly theory, also extending the generalization to a large family of principal-agent programs. Our main conclusion is that many results on diverse economic...