Despite the European Commission’s concrete steps to integrate the national car markets and reduce car price dispersion, significant car price differences exist. Moreover, international differences in taxation of sales and registration of motor vehicles do not give rise to considerable...

We present a three sector OLG model with a homogenous output good that is produced with traditional or robot technology. The traditional sector produces with labor and capital, whereas the modern sector employs robots instead of labor. We find that little can prevent the ascent of a modern...

Space: the final frontier. This paper seeks to understand the spatial dimension of tax competition. We provide two novel contributions to the literature on tax competition. First, we present a spatial model of tax competition, which is an adoption of the Hotelling model of imperfect competition...

Dem Lehrbuch der Finanzwissenschaft liegt ein umfassender Begriff vom öffentlichen Sektor in einer Volkswirtschaft zugrunde. Neben Fragen der öffentlichen Ausgaben und Einnahmen behandelt der Band auch ökonomische Aspekte öffentlicher Unternehmen sowie die Finanzwissenschaft der...

Finanzwissenschaft – Wirtschaftstheoretische und gesellschaftspolitische Grundlagen -- Umfang und Entwicklung des öffentlichen Sektors -- Funktionen des öffentlichen Sektors - Analytische Grundlagen -- Entscheidungstheoretische Grundlagen - Wohlfahrtsökonomie und Public Choice Theorie --...

Tax treaties are often seen as a means to mitigate fierce tax competition. We challenge this view by arguing that taxes on passive income reduce e↵ective average tax rates, and induce neighbouring countries to react by reducing bilateral tax rates. As opposed to traditional tax competition,...