In February 2020, the European Commission announced that it would present a plan for reforming the economic governance of the Eurozone, including the rules for public debt. The project was postponed by the outbreak of the corona pandemic, but now the reform is to come. There is a widespread...

The past few years have been marked by major crises, including the covid pandemic and the Russian attack on Ukraine. These crises have consequences. The new European Commission will need a well thought-out economic policy agenda to respond to the changed geopolitical challenges and to strengthen...

Die Digitalisierung führt in vielen Bereichen der Wirtschaft zu einem tiefgreifenden Wandel. Das Erfassen und Verarbeiten von Daten spielt eine wachsende Rolle, immaterielle Wirtschaftsgüter werden für die Wertschöpfung immer bedeutender, neue Geschäftsmodelle entstehen, die Grenze zwischen...

Rede anlässlich der Preisverleihung »Impulsrede zur Sozialen Marktwirtschaft« an ifo-Präsident Clemens Fuest durch den Wirtschaftspolitischen Club Deutschland im Bundesministerium für Wirtschaft und Energie am 11. September 2018.

This paper analyses the effects of introducing a common EU tax base with formula apportionment on the size of the EU wide tax base and on the distribution of the tax base between the EU member countries. We use a combined dataset of Deutsche Bundesbank's Foreign Direct Investment data (MiDi) and...