Der souveräne Bildungsstaat garantiert Bildung als Bürgerrecht und als attraktive persönliche Lebenschance. Er nutzt Bildung zur Förderung von Wirtschaftswachstum und Wohlstand in einer Welt mit internationalem Wettbewerb auf immer mehr Gebieten und als Mittel sozialer und kultureller...

Cities increasingly address climate change, e.g. by pledging city-level emission reduction targets. This is puzzling for the provision of a global public good: what are city governments' reasons for doing so, and do pledges actually translate into emission reductions? Empirical studies have...

We study, theoretically and empirically, the effects of incentives on the self-selection and coordination of motivated agents to produce a social good. Agents join teams where they allocate effort to either generate individual monetary rewards (selfish effort) or contribute to the production of...

This paper examines information sharing between governments in an optimal taxation framework. We present a taxonomy of alternative systems of international capital income taxation and characterize the choice of tax rates and information exchange. The model reproduces the conclusion of the...

In this paper the impacts of income and consumption taxes are analyzed within a model of stochastic endogenous growth with congestion. It is shown that the optimal amount of governmental input diminishes with uncertainty and that the optimal financing depends on the relation between the degrees...

In der vorliegenden Stellungnahme untersuchen die Autor*innen im Auftrag des Bundesministeriums für Ernährung und Landwirtschaft, ob und wie inwieweit das Modell der Gemeinwohlprämie des Deutschen Verbands für Landschaftspflege für eine Umsetzung im Rahmen der Öko-Regelungen der GAP nach...

How can we overcome the existing political, economic, and ecological crises that humanity faces? With the notion of the commons, Lukas Peter argues that this form of social organization can provide answers to the shortcomings of centralized states and open and competitive markets. By building on...