This paper analyses annual, age-specific retirement rates in Germany between 1971 and 1991. The time-series data show significant changes in overall and age-specific retirement behavior over the 21 year period. The literature provides two alternative explanations for the observed developments:...

This paper analyzes the Croatian legislation on Value Added Tax (VAT) during the period 1995-2008. First, we describe the most important VAT reforms. We show that the preferential tax treatment of particular products and industries fails to reach the tax legislator's economic and socio-political...

Ausgangspunkt für Forderungen nach einer Einführung von Kapazitätsmechanismen im deutschen Strommarkt ist die Beobachtung, dass das gegenwärtige Investitionsverhalten der Marktakteure zu einem unzureichenden Niveau der Stromversorgungssicherheit führen könnte. In dem vorliegenden Beitrag...

Comparing the economic development and current situation of the internal markets of the U.S. and the EU, two things are noticeable. On the one hand, the EU is conducting massive regional policy programmes (notably the Structural Funds) to foster economic cohesion among the 27 nations belonging...

This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...

This paper reconsiders the economic explanation of EU regional policy from an evolution- ary perspective. It contrasts the neoclassical equilibrium notions of market and government failure with the prevalent evolutionary neo-Schumpeterian and Austrian-Hayekian percep- tions. Based on this...

This paper analyses the effects of EU regional policy transfer payments on net migration flows among the EU-28 countries. The hypothesis is tested that EU transfer payments do hamper internal migration across the EU. On the one hand, this is done by reestimating the results found by Egger,...

Current European integration very much focusses on harmonisation and convergence. This streamlining goes far beyond what is demanded by economic reasoning and turns out - as the euro crisis has demonstrated - to foster tensions among EU member states instead of promoting a flourishing common...

Im November 2002 wird die NATO zur Frage der Erweiterung Stellung nehmen müssen. Dabei kann von der Prämisse ausgegangen werden, daß die Allianz sich letztlich auf einen Erweiterungsschritt festgelegt hat, Reichweite und Form jedoch noch zu bestimmen sind. Die Analyse zeigt, daß es keinen...