While the immigration policy in the United States is mainly oriented to family reunification, in Australia, Canada and the United Kingdom. it is a points-based immigration system which main objective is to attract high skilled immigrants. This paper compares both immigration policies through the...

Applying a variant of a non-parametric matching estimator, we consider European funding and national funding as heterogeneous treatments, distinguishing and simultaneously analyzing the effect these treatments have on innovation input and performance. In terms of input, getting funding from both...

Over fifteen years have passed since the beginning of the reconstruction of the transition countries' banking systems. The analysis of the development of commercial banking in Estonia and other transition countries points out several features, which are typical for the starting period of...

The idea of higher wealth taxes to finance the mounting public debt in the wake of the financial crises is gaining ground in several OECD countries. We evaluate the revenue and distributional effects of a one-time capital levy on personal net wealth that is currently on the German political...

Das Land Berlin vergibt seit 1985 auf der Grundlage des Nachwuchsförderungsgesetzes (NaFöG) Promotionsstipendien an besonders qualifizierte Doktorandinnen und Doktoranden der Berliner Hochschulen. Das Stipendium beträgt monatlich 1200,- DM und wird für zwei Jahre, in Ausnahmefällen auch...

Im Jahr 1999 löste eine neue Insolvenzordnung (InsO) die Konkurs-, Vergleichs- und Gesamtvollstreckungsordnung ab. Die vorliegende Studie analysiert die wirtschaftlichen, sozialen und finanziellen Auswirkungen dieser Rechtsänderungen auf mittelständische Unternehmen, die als Gläubiger oder...

Integrated Assessment Models (IAMs) couple representations of the natural climate system with models of the global economy to evaluate climate and energy policies. Such models are currently used to derive the benefits of carbon mitigation policies through estimates of the social cost of carbon...