In the conventional literature related to investment decisions, less attention has been paid to the length of maturity when investment is debt-financed. In such a case a firm pays the creditor not only the sum of annual interest (initial investment cost multiplied by real interest rate) for the...

Local innovation networks have been considered to be particularly important to innovation and technological change and to the growth prospects of regions and cities in Germany. Accordingly, innovation is a process that results from various (economic and social) interactions of different...

In der Europäischen Union dominiert trotz des gemeinsamen Marktes immer noch das Bestimmungslandprinzip die Umsatzbesteuerung. Erhebungstechnisch wurde 1993 jedoch das Übergangssystem eingeführt. Mit dem Ziel der Schaffung eines endgültigen Systems verbindet sich der Wechsel vom...

The size of tax evasion and fraud appears to be increasing steadily in the EU. To a certain extent, the completion of single market has further encouraged firms' and households' evading behaviour of paying value added taxes in the EU member states, while such efforts have traditionally been most...

The recent process of political and economic transformation in eastern European countries has not only contributed to the decentralisation of political structure but also significantly enhanced the fiscal autonomy of municipalities belonging to these countries. Although the degree of...