Weihnachtsgeschenke führen nicht nur zu strahlenden Kinderaugen, sondern auch zu bedeutenden Umsatzsteigerungen im Einzelhandel. In diesem Artikel wird die Bedeutung des Weihnachtsgeschäftes für den deutschen Einzelhandel dargestellt und mit den europäischen Nachbarn verglichen. Besonders...

In Switzerland, the annual circulation taxes on road vehicles are set by and paid to the cantons (not to the federal government). We exploit the 26 different circulation tax rules and their variation over time, which we interpret as a natural experiment, to see if linking them to a vehicle’s...

How do firms' sales interact across markets? Are foreign and domestic sales complements or substitutes? Using a large French firm-level database that combine balance-sheet and product-destination-specific export information over the period 1995-2001, we study the interconnections between exports...