The paper investigates the potential impact of foreigners on economic development. Historic examples, various contemporary empirical observations and theory support the working thesis that regions which face a high quota of foreign residents may benefit from human capital spillovers between...

The recently intensified search of many german cities for stabile revenues and their attempts to cope with the increased difficulties of public funding has led to the rediscovery of the so called secondary residence tax. The present article discusses the probable impact of the intensified use of...

Der Flugdiensteproduzent Ryanair steht seit einiger Zeit im Verdacht europarechtswidrige Beihilfen erhalten zu haben. Vertragliche Vereinbarungen zwischen Ryanair und verschiedenen Flughafenbetreibern waren der Ausgang für Rechtsstreitigkeiten bezüglich der Gewährung öffentlicher Hilfen an...

In the last more and more consumers evince increasing interest in fair traded products. This trade concept is designed to help mainly producers of agricultural products to keep some basic social producing criteria. The different Fair-Trade-Organisations try to implement better work- and life...