Main description: Das Buch beinhaltet sieben Abhandlungen theoretischer und grundlegender Natur zu verschiedenen Aspekten öffentlicher Finanzen sowie deren sozialpolitischen Auswirkungen. -- Die ersten drei Beiträge befassen sich mit einer (optimalen) föderalen Finanzverfassung. Ausgehend von...

Klaus Beckmann presents an economic theory of tax evasion, dealing with both the individual's decision to cheat on his or her taxes and the social consequences of, as well as policies against, tax evasion. In the first part of this book, he reviews the neo-classical theory of tax evasion,...

We present a preliminary overview of a political stock market experiment we have conducted at the Universitaet Passau. This experiment differs from previous work (e.g. the renowned Iowa Electronic Markets) in that it is built on the call market institution rather than on double auction...

This paper compares student evaluation of teaching on the web site MeinProf.de to the standard evaluation procedures at German universities. While MeinProf offers the advantage of a broad, publicly available database, a number of theoretical and econometric problems emerge. Many of these...