Ausgehend von dem Umstand, dass Umverteilung in einem Föderalstaat zwei Dimensionen hat – zum einen die Einkommensumverteilung zwischen reicheren und ärmeren Bevölkerungsteilen und zum anderen die Umverteilung von reicheren zu ärmeren Regionen – analysiert der Aufsatz die Fragen, wie...

There exists a considerable debate in the literature investigating how stock market upswings or downswings impact financial market regulation. The present paper contributes to this literature and investigates whether financial market regulation follows a regulative cycle: does regulation, and...

In a tax compliance experiment with real face-to-face communication between declaring subjects and officers, we analyse the role of both the subject's and the officer's gender for deceptive behaviour. We do not find, first, that the amount of underreporting generally depends on the officer's...

Recently, early investments in the human capital of children from socially disadvantaged environments have attracted a great deal of attention. In a discrete version of the Mirrlees model with a parents' and a children's generation we show the intra-generational and the inter-generational...