The paper argues that access to public infrastructure plays a crucial role on the presence of private schools in a community, as it could not only minimise the cost of production, but also ensure a high return to private investment. Results using community, school and child/household-level PROBE...

The paper studies the persistence of profit and its determinants in emerging markets. We apply Markov chain analysis, dynamic panel GMM estimation, and quantile regression techniques to a panel of approximately 3,000 Ukrainian companies. The empirical results show a moderate level of profit...

The paper analyses the perspectives for a new container port at the German North Sea coast. In view of the expected further enlargement of container ship sizes and sustained growth in international trade, the port seems to be an economically sound project. Public funds, however, will probably...

We investigate the localization of technical knowledge in a setup where firms or researchers compete for the value of a preemptive innovation. All researchers could gain by sharing information due to the uncertainty of the arrival time of the discovery. As receiving information while withholding...

Am 7. Februar 2024 fand in Berlin die gemeinsame Konferenz von Wirtschaftsdienst und dem Institut der deutschen Wirtschaft (IW) unter dem Titel "Zur Zukunft des Wirtschaftsstandorts Deutschland" statt. Dieser Beitrag diente als Keynote zur Eröffnung der Konferenz. Bei der Frage nach der...

Im Hinblick auf die Unternehmensbesteuerung führen zahlreiche der im Entwurf sowie im Umfeld des Steuervergünstigungsabbaugesetzes vorgesehenen Maßnahmen zu einer Schwächung der Investitionsbereitschaft, zu einer Verschlechterung der steuerlichen Standortbedingungen, zu einer weiteren...

I. Introduction: This thesis analyzes the impact of reforms in Romania and Croatia on the inflow of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) by German and Austrian Multinational Corporations (MNCs). The research questions are: (1) What role can public policy play in transition countries in attracting...