This paper develops a positive framework for studying the deductibility of premiums paid to captive insurers as business expenses in German and American tax law. A systematic analysis of the legal rules and judicial Standards that have evolved during many years of corporate litigation and...

In der vorliegenden Arbeit wurde das Verhalten des Migrations-Gittins-Index, welcher im sequentiellen Migrationsmodell die optimale Migrations-"Politik" determiniert, und variierendem Risiko untersucht. Das Hauptinteresse lag auf der Frage, inwieweit sich das für risiko-neutrale Migranten...

This paper analyzes transfer pricing incentives under a destination-based and an origin-based VAT system. While a switch to the origin-based VAT may moderate or reinforce the incentive for transfer pricing induced by income tax differentials, we show that in the case of the EU this switch tends...

This paper analyses the effects of cuts in the marginal tax rates on income from labour and capital on the macroeconomy and on the intergenerational distribution of welfare in a small open economy. For this purpose we set up a computable general equilibrium model incorporating overlapping...

Two signaling games of monetary policy are considered: game one examines the effect of hysteresis on the labor market on the results of the repeated monetary policy game. Disciplinary effects of reputation disappear in presence of hysteresis. The second game compares weifare effects of monetary...

Traditional explanations for the existence of barter trade have only very limited explanatory power. In particular, barter trade can neither overcome liquidity shortages nor make up for marketing deficiencies. It is argued that barter trade makes sense only in the presence of interventions in...

This paper examines the quantitative effects of the transitional system of value-added taxation for intra-EC trade after 1992, as recently adopted by the ECOFIN-Council. First, the administration of the current destination principle and the interim solution are described and a mathematical...

Was die Weltwirtschaft angeht, - bemerkt Tucholsky bissig in seinem Essay "Kurzer Abriß der Nationalökonomie" in den zwanziger Jahren - "so ist sie verflochten". Und er fährt fort: "Eine wichtige Rolle im Handel spielt der Export. Export ist, wenn die anderen kaufen sollen, was wir nicht...