Theory suggests that large firms are more likely to engage in lobbying behaviour and are geographically more mobile than smaller entities. Conditional on jurisdiction size, policy choices are thus predicted to depend on the shape of a jurisdiction’s firm size distribution, with more...

We empirically assess international corporate tax avoidance by strategic location of innovative output. The analysis draws on the universe of patent applications to the European Patent Office linked with data on multinational entities (MNEs) in Europe. Four findings emerge: Firstly, patent...

This article investigates whether the institution of life-time tenure for public sector workers affects the selection of workers into private and public sector occupations. Precisely, we argue that more generous employment protection for public sector workers may induce risk averse individuals...

K<sc>oh</sc> H.-J. and R<sc>iedel</sc> N. Assessing the localization pattern of German manufacturing and service industries: a distance-based approach, <italic>Regional Studies</italic>. This paper assesses the agglomeration pattern of four-digit industries in Germany using a rich data set on the population of German firms. To...