Commodities do not only serve the purpose of satisfying direct needs in the production and con-sumption process. Some of them can also be used to display social status and to affect the position of an individual in society. This paper addresses the question under which circum-stances...

The paper shows that interjurisdictional competition for mobile factors of production forces the government to raise the efficiency of the public sector and, thus, helps to tame Leviathan governments. However, this result is derived under some restrictive assumptions concerning the kind of tax...

This dissertation analysis the consequences of interjurisdictional competition for a mobile tax base for the efficiency of the public sector and the growth potential of a jurisdiction.

Green technological progress bears a strong potential to alleviate climate change, but its utilization is contingent on factors which are by nature impossible to anticipate or predict. Developing stochastic optimisation models, we explore how the decision to invest in research and development...

Unternehmensgründungen durch Personen mit Migrationshintergrund haben in Deutschland stark zugenommen. Auf regionaler Ebene werden die Gründungsaktivitäten ausländischer Personen im Zeitraum 2001-2005 mit Daten der Gewerbeanzeigenstatistik beschrieben. Die Relevanz regionaler...