Recently several countries, including Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia, have at least partially reversed their earlier moves towards compulsory defined-contribution schemes. This paper concentrates on Poland, which just reduced contributions going to the...

Even before the pandemic, an ageing population, a potential over-reliance on corporation tax receipts and an inevitable decline in motor tax revenues combined to make the need for future tax rises likely. This paper examines a range of options that a government seeking to raise or replace tax...

Das Gutachten untersucht den Standortwettbewerb zwischen Frankfurt und den umliegenden Gemeinden. Hierbei stellen sich Fragen nach einer möglichen Intensivierung des Standortwettbewerbs, der Position Frankfurts, und etwaigen Determinanten für Veränderungen. Es zeigt sich ab Ende der...