Die Förderung von Entrepreneurship und eines günstigen Umfelds für die Wirtschaft, insbesondere für Klein- und Mittelunternehmen, ist von entscheidender Bedeutung für das Wirtschaftswachstum, den Strukturwandel und die Wettbewerbsfähigkeit in der Europäischen Union.Die Europäische...

[...]Die Dokumentation soll Inhalt und Ablauf des Wettbewerbs einer breiten Öffentlichkeitzugänglich machen. Auf diese Weise möchte das IfM Bonn dazu beitragen, beispielhafteInitiativen und Praxismodelle überregional bekannt zu machen.[...]

This paper presents a two-country dynamic general equilibrium model with imperfectcompetition and nominal price rigidities in which productivity shocks coexist withmarkup shocks. After analyzing the features of the optimal cooperative solution, we showthat this allocation can be implemented in a...

This paper develops an approach to studying how bias in favor ofone party due to the pattern of electoral districting affects policy choice.We tie a commonly used measure of electoral bias to the theory of partycompetition and show how this affects party strategy in theory. Theusefulness of the...

This paper develops a simple model to analyze how a lack of politi-cal competition may lead to policies that hinder economic growth. Wetest the predictions of the model on panel data for the US states. Inthese data, we …nd robust evidence that lack of political competitionin a state is...

This paper develops an approach to political equilibrium in a two-party setting. The approach characterizes political resource allocationas trading o¤ the utility of core party supporters and swing voters,i.e. those who are not attached to either party. The model has threestages. First parties...

[...]Im vorliegenden Beitrag werden entsprechend dieser Problemstellung diePräferenzen verschiedener Arbeitnehmergruppen analysiert. Die Ergebnissedieser Analyse lassen auf einen entscheidenden Einfluss von "weichen" Arbeitsplatz-und Unternehmenscharakteristika bei der Arbeitsplatz- bzw....

Epistemic arguments play a significant role in Hayek’s defense of market liberalism. Hisclaim that market competition is a discovery procedure that serves the common good is acase in point. The hypothesis of the markets’ efficient use of existing knowledge issupplemented by the idea that...

Inter-rm competition has received much attention in the theoreticalliterature, but recent empirical work suggests that the growth rates of ri-val rms are uncorrelated, and that rm growth can be taken as an essen-tially independent process. We begin by investigating the correlations of thegrowth...

There are N citizens who have to make a social decision about a set policies denotedby x ∈ A, where A denotes the set of feasible policies. Citizen’s preferencesover policy are denoted V i (x, j) ( where i = 1, ...,N) ,and j denotes the identityof the policy maker. This specification allows...